Alfonso Sousa-Poza

Research Fellow

University of Hohenheim

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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. 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
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
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12165
In Search of China's Income-Health Gradient: A Biomarker-Based Analysis
Peng Nie, Qing Li, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10963
What Chinese Workers Value: An Analysis of Job Satisfaction, Job Expectations, and Labor Turnover in China
Peng Nie, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10953
Smoking and the Business Cycle: Evidence from Germany
Micha Kaiser, Mirjam Reutter, Alfonso Sousa-Poza, Kristina Strohmaier
forthcoming in: Economics & Human Biology, 2018
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9893
Developments in Undernutrition in Indian Children Under Five: A Decompositional Analysis
Peng Nie, Anu Rammohan, Wencke Gwozdz, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9051
Peer Effects on Obesity in a Sample of European Children
Wencke Gwozdz, Alfonso Sousa-Poza, Lucia A. Reisch, Karin Bammann, Gabriele Eiben, Yiannis Kourides, Eva Kovács, Fabio Lauria, Kenn Konstabel, Alba M. Santaliestra-Pasias, Krishna Vyncke, Iris Pigeot
published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2015, 18, 139–152
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8911
Long Work Hours and Health in China
Peng Nie, Steffen Otterbach, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
published in: China Economic Review, 2015, 33, 212-229
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8851
Impacts of Informal Caregiving on Caregiver Employment, Health, and Family
Jan Michael Bauer, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
published in: Journal of Population Ageing, 2015, 8(3), 113-145
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8528
Peer Effects on Childhood and Adolescent Obesity in China
Peng Nie, Alfonso Sousa-Poza, Xiaobo He
published in: China Economic Review, 2015, 35, 47-69
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8438
Job Insecurity, Employability, and Health: An Analysis for Germany across Generations
Steffen Otterbach, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
published in: Applied Economics, 2016, 48 (14), 1303-1316
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8030
Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity in China: Evidence from the China Health and Nutrition Survey
Peng Nie, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
published in: Applied Economics, 2014, 46(20), 2418–2428
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7371
Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity: A European Perspective
Wencke Gwozdz, Alfonso Sousa-Poza, Lucia A. Reisch, Wolfgang Ahrens, Stefaan De Henauw, Gabriele Eiben, Juan M. Fernández-Alvira, Charalampos Hadjigeorgiou, Eva Kovács, Fabio Lauria, Toomas Veidebaum, Garrath Williams, Karin Bammann
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 32 (4), 728-742
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7328
How Does Subjective Well-Being Evolve with Age? A Literature Review
Beatriz Fabiola López Ulloa, Valerie Moller, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
published in: Journal of Population Ageing, 2013, 6 (3), 227-246
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7205
Ageing and Productivity: Introduction
David E. Bloom, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
published in: Labour Economics, 22 (2013) 1–4
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6126
Work Hours Constraints and Health
David N.F. Bell, Steffen Otterbach, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
published in: Annales d'Économie et de Statistique, 2012, 105-106, 35-54
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5551
Engel Curves, Spatial Variation in Prices and Demand for Commodities in Côte d'Ivoire
Monnet Benoit Patrick Gbakou, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4053
Ageing, Health and Life Satisfaction of the Oldest Old: An Analysis for Germany
Wencke Gwozdz, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
published in: Social Indicators Research, 2010, 97(3), 325-339
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3256
Does Job Satisfaction Improve the Health of Workers? New Evidence Using Panel Data and Objective Measures of Health
Justina A.V. Fischer, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
published in: Health Economics, 2009, 18 (1), 71-89
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3019
Performance Pay, Sorting, and Outsourcing
Fred Henneberger, Alfonso Sousa-Poza, Alexandre Ziegler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2714
'Voluntary' and 'Involuntary' Early Retirement: An International Analysis
David Dorn, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
published in: Applied Economics, 2010, 42 (4), 427-438
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2374
Taxation and Internal Migration: Evidence from the Swiss Census Using Community-Level Variation in Income Tax Rates
Thomas Liebig, Patrick A. Puhani, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2007, 47 (4), 807-836
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