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. 17967

Spousal Bereavement and Long-Term Care Needs of Older Chinese Adults

Peng Nie, Bin Zhang, Lanlin Ding, Alfonso Sousa-Poza

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

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

published in: Prague Economic Papers, 2020, 29 (1), 85-104

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10953

Smoking and the Business Cycle: Evidence from Germany

Micha Kaiser, Mirjam Reutter, Alfonso Sousa-Poza, Kristina Strohmaier

published as 'Smoking and local unemployment: Evidence from Germany ' in: Economics & Human Biology, 2018, 29, 138 - 147

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

published as 'Changes in Child Nutrition in India: A Decomposition Approach' in: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019, 16 (10), 1815

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