Alfonso Sousa-Poza

Research Fellow

University of Hohenheim

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Research Interests

Alfonso Sousa-Poza holds a Professorship in Economics at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart (Germany), and is a Director of the Institute for Health Care & Public Management. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Economics at the Xi'an Jiaotong University’s School of Economics and Finance. Alfonso Sousa-Poza is the coordinating editor of the Journal of the Economics of Ageing.

Alfonso Sousa-Poza studied computer science at the University of Cape Town, and economics at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, from which he obtained his PhD in 1999. From 1996 until 2007 he was employed at the Research Institute for Labour Economics and Labour Law at the University of St. Gallen.

His primarily empirical research interests are in the fields of health, labour and population economics.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in March 2007.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16386
Housing Unaffordability and Adolescent Academic Achievement in Urban China
Peng Nie, Qiaoge Li, Lanlin Ding, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
published online in: Applied Economics, 21 August 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15305
Housing Unaffordability and Adolescent Subjective Well-Being in China
Peng Nie, Qiaoge Li, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
published online in: Applied Economics, 21 August 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15168
Housing Conditions and Health in Urban China
Lanlin Ding, Peng Nie, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
published in: Cities, 2024, 152, 105248.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14905
"The Better You Feel, the Harder You Fall": Health Perception Biases and Mental Health among Chinese Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Peng Nie, Lu Wang, Davide Dragone, Haiyang Lu, Alfonso Sousa-Poza, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
published in: China Economic Review, 2022, 71, 101708
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14429
Energy Poverty and Subjective Well-Being in China: New Evidence from the China Family Panel Studies
Peng Nie, Qiaoge Li, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
published in: Energy Economics, 2021, 103: 105548.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13927
Interventions with Positive Side-Effects: COVID-19 Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions and Infectious Diseases in Europe
Micha Kaiser, Steffen Otterbach, Alfonso Sousa-Poza, David E. Bloom
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13448
Peer Effects and Fertility Preferences in China: Evidence from the China Labor-Force Dynamics Survey
Peng Nie, Lu Wang, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
published online in: Singapore Economic Review, 2021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13106
The Long-Term Cognitive and Schooling Effects of Childhood Vaccinations in China
Hamid R. Oskorouchi, Alfonso Sousa-Poza, David E. Bloom
published in: China Economic Review, 2024, 88, 102293
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12832
The Effect of Parental Educational Expectations on Adolescent Subjective Well-Being and the Moderating Role of Perceived Academic Pressure: Longitudinal Evidence for China
Haiyang Lu, Peng Nie, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
published in: Child Indicators Research, 2021, 14, 117–137.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12165
In Search of China's Income-Health Gradient: A Biomarker-Based Analysis
Peng Nie, Qing Li, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
published in: Applied Economics, 2021, 53 (48), 5599 - 5618
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