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. 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
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