Joan Costa-i-Font is an Associate Professor (Reader) of Political Economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and a CESIfo network research fellow. He has been Harkness fellow at Harvard University and visiting fellow at Boston College, Oxford University and the University of Munich. His published work can be found in leading journals in economics and economic policy (e.g., Journal of the European Economic Association, Economica, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Economic Policy, Oxford Review of Economic Policy) as well as in the main health economics (e.g., Journal of Health Economics, Health Economics), and interdisciplinary social science journals (e.g., Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, Social Science and Medicine, Public Choice).