Peng Nie is now an Associate Professor in Economics at the Xi’an Jiaotong University in Xi’an, China. He is also Research Fellow at the Institute for Health Care & Public Management, University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart (Germany), and Global Labor Organization (GLO). He obtained his PhD in economics from the University of Hohenheim (Germany) in August 2015. His research interests focus on issues related to labor economics (in particular, long work hours, job satisfaction and job turnover), health economics and development economics. Recently he has begun to perform research in the economics of health inequality such as socioeconomic related health inequality in China. He has published in the international journals such as Kyklos, Economics & Human Biology and China Economic Review. He is a member of International Health Economics Association (Member of the Scientific Committee Review Panel), The Chinese Economists Society, Youth Committee of China Health Economics Association (Committee Member). He is an Associate Editor of BMC Public Health.

Peng Nie joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in October 2019.