Alfonso Sousa-Poza

Research Fellow

Universität Hohenheim

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Forschungsinteressen

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-Publikationen

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