Newly updated WP🧵! TLDR: Scarcity may worsen implicit/explicit biases & cause discriminatory rationing of resources. E.g, we find that as hospitals reach capacity, Black patients die more, potentially bc providers rely less on medical need- and more on race- to guide decisions

What happens to healthcare when it becomes a scarce good? 🔔Find out in our Nature Communications paper w Arun Frey and Andrea Tilstra (tinyurl.com/yrtx2wj3)🔔 tldr: during C19, healthcare use reduced more for marginalised groups further illustrating the pandemic's unequal burden.

👨‍🏫Please join us at the upcoming Health Policy seminar with Günther Fink from Swiss TPH Early childhood growth, parental perceptions and willingness to pay: Evidence from Zambia 📅Tues 18 March 1-2pm Online & In-person (COW1.11) ⬇️Sign up Today: ⬇️ lse.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

You can add three years to your life by walking 15,000 steps a week. Professor Joan Costa-Font (he/him)🌏 from LSE Ageing & Health Incentive Lab (AHIL) explains how. rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

Using height #inequality as an indicator, the introduction of public #healthinsurance schemes over the last 150 years substantially reduced health inequality. J Baten Universität Tübingen, A Batinti Sapienza Università di Roma, Joan Costa-Font (he/him)🌏 LSE, L Radatz Universität Tübingen ow.ly/9l7f50QKGtP

From the archives: Transitioning to daylight saving time in spring makes people tired and so less happy – but only for the week or so it takes to adjust. Joan Costa-Font (he/him)🌏 Sarah Fleche and Ricardo Pagan blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview…

Great collections of people and topics. Glad to be part of it tinyurl.com/2kn24c56

Had the pleasure of seeing this paper be presented today at UVA Batten School by Atheen! Great work Vini and Atheen!

Without access to recent and reliable data, democratic choices are impoverished. India's elections: why data and transparency matter - The Lancet thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Love the picture. Ageing as an opportunity to innovate. LSE Ageing & Health Incentive Lab (AHIL) theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Equally educated people are healthier if they live in more educated areas; but not due to sorting, health-related amenities, or pollution but largely to differences in attitudes towards smoking, from Jacob Mullins Bor, @cutler_econ, Glaeser, and Ljubica (LJ) Ristovska nber.org/papers/w32346

4/5 New Books: Behavioural Economics and Policy for Pandemics - Insights from Responses to COVID-19, by Joan Costa-Font (he/him)🌏 and Matteo M Galizzi (LSE Health Policy) cambridgebookshop.co.uk/products/behav…

In a large randomized controlled field trial in 24,702 people in 176 isolated villages in Honduras, published in Science Magazine on May 3, 2024, we showed how social contagion can be used to improve human welfare. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… #HNL Edo Airoldi

UBI (1K/month) for three years does not increase human capital investment, people consume more leisure, and there are no health or productivity effects. My take: time constraints matter more than financial constraints in high income settings

Call for papers for a virtual workshop on family and healthy ageing (deadline September 15). We welcome papers proposalswith a global (high and low income) perspective Nilesh Raut norma coe Prof Tiziana Leone #ceasefirenow 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🇮🇹 LSE Health Policy

In the UK, financial support for long term care later in life is so skinny that even prime ministers (Harold Wilson) end up having to sell their legacy to get care. Today would not be too different, only Scotland know better in the British Isles. theguardian.com/politics/artic…

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS WORKSHOP ON FAMILY and HEALTHY AGEING Co-organizers LSE-AHIL @LSENews & Population Aging Research Center at Penn This workshop will take place ONLINE on Friday, 18th October 2024 SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT TODAY: lse.ac.uk/lse-health/res… Submissions are DUE in just 1 month on: 15 September 2024!

It has been great to present my work on the productivity and efficiency of long term care at ⁦RWI⁩. Thanks to Matthias Westphal for the invitation.⁦LSE Health Policy⁩ ⁦LSE Ageing & Health Incentive Lab (AHIL)⁩