Alfonso Sousa-Poza

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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. 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
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