Prof. Dr. Alfonso Sousa-Poza
Alfonso Sousa-Poza holds a Professorship in Economics at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart (Germany), and is the Manageing Director of the Institute for Health Care & Public Management. Alfonso Sousa-Poza is the coordinating editor of the Journal of the Economics of Ageing, an adjunct professor at the School of Economics and Finance at Xian Jiaotong University (China) and a research fellow at IZA.
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.
Affiliations
- Research Fellow, IZA, Bonn
- Member of the Research Committee on health Economics, German Economic Association
- Editor, Journal of the Economics of Aging
Research interest
- Socioeconomic determinants of Obesity
- Subjective wellbeing Research
- Work and health
- Food insecurity
Selected publications
| Meng, F., Nie, P., & Sousa-Poza, A. (2023b). Obesity inequality and well-being in Germany. Economics & Human Biology, 49, 101236. | |
| Meng, F., Nie, P., & Sousa-Poza, A. (2023). The intangible costs of overweight and obesity in Germany. Health Economics Review, 13(1), 14. | |
Nie, P./ Wang, L./ Dragone, D./ Lu, H./ Sousa-Poza, A./ Ziebarth, N. R. (2022) „’The better you feel, the harder you fall’: Health perception biases and mental health among Chinese adults during the COVID-19 pandemic”, China Economic Review 71, 101708. | |
Nie, P./ Ding, L./ Sousa-Poza, A./ Leon, A.A./ Xue, H./ Jia, P./ Wang, L./ Wang, Y. (2021), „Inequality of weight status in urban Cuba: 2001–2010”, Population health metrics 19 (1), 1-10. | |
Daneshvar, E./ Otterbach, S./ Alameddine, M./ Safikhani, H./ Sousa-Poza, A. (2021) “Sources of anxiety among healthcare workers in Tehran during the COVID-19 pandemic”, Health Policy and Planning. | |
Kaiser, M./ Otterbach, S./ Sousa-Poza, A. (2021), „Using Deep Learning To Uncover The Relation Between Age and Life Satisfaction”. | |
Nie, P./ Wang, L./ Sousa-Poza, A. (2021), „Health perception biases and risky health behaviours in China”, Applied Economics Letters, 1-8. | |
Otterbach, S./ Sousa‐Poza, A./ Zhang, X. (2021), „Gender differences in perceived workplace harassment and gender egalitarianism: A comparative cross‐national analysis”, Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility 30 (3), 392-411. | |
Nie, P./ Li, Q./ Cohen, A.A./ Sousa-Poza, A. (2021), „In search of China’s income-health gradient: a biomarker-based analysis”, Applied Economics, 1-20. | |
Nie, P./ Li, Q./ Sousa-Poza, A. (2021), „Energy Poverty and Subjective Well-Being in China: New Evidence from the China Family Panel Studies”, IZA Discussion Paper. | |
Nie, P./ Wang, L./ Sousa-Poza, A. (2021), „Peer Effects and Fertility Preferences in China: Evidence from the China Labor-Force Dynamics Survey”, The Singapore Economic Review, 1-29. | |
Lu, H./ Nie, P./ Sousa-Poza, A. (2021), „The Effect of Parental Educational Expectations on Adolescent Subjective Well-Being and the Moderating Role of Perceived Academic Pressure: Longitudinal Evidence for China”, Child Indicators Research 14 (1), 117-137. | |
Nie,P./ Li, Y./ Ding, L./ Sousa-Poza, A. (2021), „Housing Poverty and Healthy Aging in China: Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study”, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18 (18), 9911. | |
Oskorouchi, H.R./ Sousa‐Poza, A. (2021), „Floods, food security, and coping strategies: Evidence from Afghanistan”, Agricultural Economics 52 (1), 123-140. | |
Kaiser, M./ Otterbach, S./ Sousa-Poza, A./ Bloom, D.E. (2020), „Interventions with Positive Side-Effects: COVID-19 Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions and Infectious Diseases in Europe”, IZA Discussion Paper. | |
Nie, P./ Ding, L./ Sousa-Poza, A./ Leon, A. A./ Xue, H./ Jia, P./ Wang, L./ Díaz Sánchez, M. E./ Wang, Y. (2020), “Socioeconomic position and the health gradient in Cuba: dimensions and mechanisms”, BMC Public Health. | |
Zhu, Z./ Ma, W./ Sousa-Poza, A./ Leng, C. (2020), “The effect of internet usage on perceptions of social fairness: Evidence from rural China”, China Economic Review, 101508. | |
Oskorouchi, H. R./ Sousa-Poza, A./ Bloom, D. E. (2020) „ The long-term cognitive and schooling effects of childhood vaccinations in China”, National Bureau of Economic Research. | |
Nie, P./ Ma, W./ Sousa-Poza, A. (2020), “The relationship between smartphone use and subjective well-being in rural China”, Electronic Commerce Research, 1-27. | |
Nie, P./Ding, L./Sousa-Poza, A. (2019), “Obesity inequality and the changing shape of the bodyweight distribution in China”, China Economic Review, 58, 101348. | |
Zhang, X./ Kaiser, M./ Nie, P./ Sousa-Poza, A. (2019) „Why are Chinese workers so unhappy? A comparative cross-national analysis of job satisfaction, job expectations, and job attributes”, PloS one 14 (9), e0222715. | |
Nie, P./ Ding, L./ Sousa‐Poza, A. (2019) „Decomposing adult obesity trends in China (1991–2011)”, Economics & Human Biology 34, 5-15. | |
| Gwozdz, W./Nie, P./Sousa‐Poza, A. et al. (2019) “Peer Effects on Weight Status, Dietary Behaviour and Physical Activity among Adolescents in Europe: Findings from the I. Family Study”, Kyklos 72 (2), 270-296. | |
| Kaiser, M./Reutter, M./Sousa-Poza, A./Strohmaier, K. (2018), "Smoking and Local Unemployment: Evidence from Germany", Economics & Human Biology, 29, 138-147. | |
| Alameddine, M./Otterbach, S./Rafi, B./Sousa-Poza, A. (2018), "Work hour constraints in the German nursing workforce: A quarter of a century in review", Health Policy (forthcoming) | |
| Oskorouchi, H.R./Sousa-Poza, A. (2018), "The effect of floods on anemia among reproductive age women in Afghanistan. PLos ONE, 13(2): e0191726. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0191726 | |
| Nie, P./ Alfonso Leon, A./ Díaz Sánchez, M.E./ Sousa-Poza, A. (2017), "The rise in obesity in Cuba from 2001 to 2010: An analysis of National Survey on Risk Factors and Chronic Diseases data", Economics and Human Biology, 28 (2018) 1-13. | |
| Alameddine, M./Bauer, J.M./Richter, M./Sousa-Poza, A. (2016), "Trends in job satisfaction among German nurses from 1990 to 2012", Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, 21(2):101-108. | |
| Gwozdz, W./Sousa-Poza, A. et al. (2015), "Peer Effects on Obesity in a Sample of European Children", Economics and Human Biology, 18:139–152. | |
| Bauer, J./Cords, D./Sellung, R/Sousa-Poza, A. (2015), "Effects of Different Life Events on Life Satisfaction in the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey", Economics Letters, 129:91-94. | |
| Gwozdz, W./Sousa-Poza, A. et al. (2013), "Maternal Employment and Child Obesity: A European Perspective", Journal of Health Economics, 32:728-742. | |
| Fischer, J.A./Sousa-Poza, A. (2009), "Job Satisfaction and Health: An Analysis using Panel Data and Objective Health Measures", Health Economics, 18:71-89. |