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Peng Nie, Prof. Dr. 

 

Address

Xi’an Jiaotong University

Rm. 1513, School of Economics and Finance

No. 28 Xianning West Road, 710049 Xi’an, China

                      Email: niepeng2017@mail.xjtu.edu.cn 

 

Main Fields of Research

 

·     Health economics (esp. demographic and socioeconomic drivers of health; SES-related health inequality; biomarker applications in health economics; practical applications of Mendelian randomization in health outcomes)

 

·         Development economics (esp. household food (in)security, child undernutrition/mortality; inequality and poverty)

 

·     The economics of ageing (healthy ageing; long-term care)

 

·         Subjective well-being (demographic and socioeconomic determinants of SWB)

 

·         Labor economics (esp. long work hours, female behavior in labor market, job satisfaction and labor turnover)

 

 

 

Note: PhD/Post-doc Applicants are interested in interdisciplinary research on health economics, development economics, subjective well-being, and labor economics are highly welcome to join in our research team!!!

 

Are you ready?

 

IF YES! Just give a try!

 

 

The most important part is that we could fully enjoy the beauty of science (in

 

particular, the science of economics) and keep a healthy and happy life! Bravo!!! wink 

 

 

Education

 

09/2012 – 08/2015     Doctorate in Economics (Dr. oec, summa cum laude), University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

 

 

Professional Experience (Academic/Non-academic)                           

 

01/2024 – present   Professor, School of Economics and Finance, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

06/2022 – present   Professor, Xi’an Jiaotong University International Obesity and Metabolic Disease Research Center (IOMC), Xi’an, China

03/2021 – present   Associate Dean, Center for Aging Health and Geriatrics, Global Health Institute (GHI), Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

02/2019 – present   Research Fellow, Global Health Institute (GHI), Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

07/2018 – present   Research Fellow, Global Labor Organization (GLO)

07/2017 – 12/2023 Distinguished Research Fellow (PhD supervisor, Young Talent Support Plan) School of Economics and Finance, Xi’an Jiaotong

University, Xi’an, China

07/2017 – present   Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Department of Household and Consumer Economics, Institute for Health Care & Public     

                                   Management, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

08/2015 – 07/2017  Research Fellow (Postdoc), Department of Household and Consumer Economics, Institute for Health Care & Public     

                                   Management, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

11/2015 – 12/2015   Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Management, Society and Communication, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark

11/2014 – 12/2014   Visiting Research Associate, Centre for Global Food and Resources, Faculty of Professions, University of Adelaide,

                                   Adelaide, Australia

09/2012 – 08/2015  Research Associate, Chair for Household and Consumer Economics, Institute for Health Care & Public Management,

                                  University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

 

Editorial Positions

 

09/2019 – present       Editorial Board Member, BMC Public Health

(Springer Nature)

01/2020 – present       Associate Editor, The Journal of the Economics of Ageing

(Elsevier)

11/2020 – present       Editorial Board Member, Labor History

(Taylor & Francis Online)

04/2021 – present       Editorial Board Member, BMC Geriatrics

(Springer Nature)

09/2025 – present       Associate Editor, The Singapore Economic Review

(World Scientific)

03/2023 – 06/2023    Guest Editor, BMC Geriatrics, Special Issue on “The impact of early-life/childhood circumstances or conditions on the health of older adults”

 

 

Teaching Experience

 

 

2015 – 2017      Health Economics (at Master level, University of Hohenheim, Germany)

 

2017 – present  Development Economics (at Bachelor level, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China)

 

2017 – present  Advanced Topics on Development Economics (at Master/PhD level, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China)

 

2018 – present  Economics of Incentives (at Bachelor level, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China)

 

2019 – present  Health Economics (at Master/PhD level, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China)

 

05/2018, 02/2019  The Role of Health in Economic Growth and Development (for international students (Master/PhD), Xi’an, China) 

 

 

Assessment and Administration

 

 

2013 – 2017        Supervision of Bachelor’s and Master’s seminar papers and Master’s Thesis, University of Hohenheim, Germany

 

2017 – present    Master and PhD supervision (12 master students and 9 PhD students), Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

 

2017 – present    Supervision of Double Degree of Bachelor’s graduation thesis, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

 

2020 – 2023        Interdisciplinary PhD program, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China (co-supervisor, together with School of Public Health, Xi'an Jiaotong University,

                            China)

 

 

Research Projects

 

2022.12 – 2027.12     “Efficiency Improvement in Labor Factor Marketization and Collaborative Pathways to Common Prosperity”, Key Project of the National Social Science Fund of China (grant no. 22AZD119)

 

01/2021 – 12/2024   “Measurement and Decomposition of Inequality of Opportunity in Health in the Chinese Elderly: Roemer's Theory of Equality of  Opportunity” (funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), grant no. 72074178, China), PI

 

06/2020 – 10/2020    “Health and Economic Impact of NCDs linked to Tobacco, Alcohol, and SSB Consumption in China” (funded by World Bank),  main participant

 

2019.01 – 2021.12    “Housing Poverty and Health in Urban China: Longitudinal Evidence and Underlying Mechanisms” (PI, funded by the National Natural

                                  Science Foundation of China (NSFC), grant no. 71804142), PI

 

07/2017 – 06/2023    “Young Talent Support Plan Start-Up Fund” (Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, grant no. 7121182501), PI

 

01/2017 – 12/2019   “Health Burden and Health Care Facilities/Resources of Countries along the New Silk Road and Collaboration on Global Health” (funded by the US-based China Medical Board (CMB), grant no. CNL 16-262, US), participant

 

01/2015 – 01/2023   “The Childhood Obesity Study in China Mega-cities (COCM Study)”, (funded by NIH U54, grant no. U54HD070725, US), participant

 

2012.03 – 2017.02    “I.Family Study – Investigating the Determinants of Food Choice, Lifestyle and Health in European Children, Adolescents and Their  

                                   Parents” (funded by the European Commission within the Seventh RTD Framework Programme Contract No. FP7 266044 (KBBE 2010-4),  

                                   http://www.ifamilystudy.eu/), Co-PI of two subprojects of peer effects on individual body weight

 

2014.12 – 2015.11     “Internet Use and Subjective Well-Being in China”, one of granted research projects for Tuscany: a Global Laboratory for Quality of Life,                           Towards Expo 2015 (Feeding the Earth), Polo Lionello Bonfanti, Italy, PI

 

2014.02 – 2014.08     “Background Work for Region Aging Report: Paper on Subjective Well-being in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) Region”, ECSPE- 

                                   Europe and Central Asia Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, World Bank Project, Co-PI

 

2012.09 – 2015.08   “Innovation Research Funds on Health and Nutrition”, the Center for Gender and Nutrition, University of Hohenheim, Germany, PI 

 

 

Peer-Reviewed Publications

 

  1. Lin, L., He, M., and Nie, P.* (2025). Direct and spillover effects of long-term care insurance on Chinese elderly frailty. The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 31: 100571. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeoa.2025.100571
  2. Nie, P.* and Lin, X.L. (2025). Understanding the inequality of opportunity in stunting among Chinese children and adolescents: An urban‒rural comparison. Review of Development Economics, 29(3): 1379-1392. https://doi.org/10.1111/rode.13246
  3. Nie, P.*, Li, Q.G. and Sousa-Poza, A. (2025). Housing unaffordability and adolescent depression in urban China. Cities, 160: 105855. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2025.105855
  4. Nie, P.* and Li, Q.G. (2025). Age-friendly community environments and the age trajectories of long-term care dependency among Chinese older adults. Social Science & Medicine, 365: 117614. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117614
  5. Nie, P.*, Wang, L., and Sousa-Poza, A. (2025). Peer effects and fertility preference in China, The Singapore Economic Review, 70(3): 695-723. https://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0217590821500120. (New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/opinion/birth-rate-peer-effects.html)
  6. Nie, P.*, Li, Q.G., Ding, L.L. and Sousa-Poza, A. (2024). Housing unaffordability and adolescent academic achievement in urban China. Applied Economics (forthcoming). https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2024.2391580
  7. Zhou, B., …Nie, P., ... and Ezzati, M.* (2024). Worldwide trends in diabetes prevalence and treatment from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 1101 population-representative studies with 82 million participants. The Lancet, 404(10467): 2077 - 2093. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)02317-1/fulltext (Financial Times, https://www.ft.com/content/40d098ed-129a-4116-83a1-7941c58bd9cf; The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/13/diabetes-rates-increase-world-study; The Telegraph,  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/millions-of-diabetics-worldwide-without-medication/; Reuters, https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/more-than-800-million-adults-have-diabetes-globally-many-untreated-study-2024-11-13/; The Indian Express, https://indianexpress.com/article/health-wellness/lancet-study-quarter-diabetics-globally-indians-9668262/; The Times of India, https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/alarm-as-diabetes-cases-surpass-100-million-in-india/articleshow/115265182.cms)
  8. Ding, L.L., Nie, P.*, and Sousa-Poza, A. (2024), Housing conditions and health: New evidence from urban China, Cities, 152: 105248. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.105248
  9. Nie, P.*, Lin, X.L., and Ding, L.L. (2024). The role of childhood circumstances in healthy aging inequalities among older adults - China, 2011-2020. China CDC Weekly, 6(11): 208-212. https://doi.org/ 10.46234/ccdcw2024.042
  10. Yan, W.B. and Nie, P.* (2024). The impact of wealth loss on household economic well-being in China—The case of over-quota birth fines. Applied Economics, 56(47): 5665-5681.  https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2023.2257931
  11. Zhou, B., …Nie, P., ... and Ezzati, M.* (2024). General and abdominal adiposity and hypertension in eight world regions: a pooled analysis of 837 population-based studies with 7·5 million participants. The Lancet, 404(10455): 851 - 863. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01405-3/fulltext
  12. Xie, J.C., Nie, P., Sun, M.Z., Chen, X.G., Xu, T.L., Shi, Z.M., Lu, C.T.*, and Wang, Y.F.* (2024). One hundred year secular trends of overweight and obesity in China: Effects of age, period and cohort. Obesity, 32(11): 2186-2197. https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.24134
  13. Nie, P.* and Li, Q.G. (2024). Does energy poverty increase health care expenditures in China? Applied Economics, 56(35): 4209-4235. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2023.2210823
  14. Phelps, N., ... Nie, P., ... and Ezzati, M.* (2024). Worldwide trends in the burden of underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 3663 population-representative studies with 222 million school-aged children, adolescents and adults. The Lancet, 403(10431): 1027-1050. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)02750-2 (BBC, https://www.bbc.com/news/health-68436642; CNN,  https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/29/health/obesity-underweight-world-who-study/index.html; The Economist, https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2024/03/01/the-obesity-capitals-of-the-world; Financial Times, https://www.ft.com/content/f0d67cff-8507-498a-91cc-30fbfa65c1c3; Forbes, https://www.forbes.com/sites/ariannajohnson/2024/02/29/over-1-billion-people-now-have-obesity-study-finds-what-to-know-about-global-weight-trends/; Open Minds,  https://openminds.com/market-intelligence/news/worldwide-obesity-prevalence-has-more-than-doubled-over-the-last-30-years/; Xinhua Net(新华网), 世卫组织：全球超10亿人患肥胖症青少年肥胖人数激增，http://www.xinhuanet.com/20240301/5c7b6e888c4f4a62b9775b5a9135bc9c/c.html)
  15. Gakuru, E., Yang, S.*, Namahoro, J.P., Nie, P., Bunje, M.Y., and Aslam, N. (2024). Energy-focused green climate policies and trade nexus: Do heterogeneous effects on clean energy poverty matter? Energy, 294: 130836. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2024.130836
  16. Wei, J.X., Nie, P., Gao, L.W., Mi, Y., and Wang, Y.F.* (2024). Time trends and disparities of obesity and related national policies and programs in Nepal: a systematic review. Global Health Journal, 8(2): 46-57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.glohj.2024.05.006
  17. Nie, P.*, Peng, X., Luo, T.Y. (2023). Internet use and fertility behavior among reproductive-age women in China. China Economic Review, 77: 101903. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2022.101903. (CER推送，https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/tDAhqNPYsKlS35GqfLP0VQ)
  18. Nie, P., Wang, L., and Sousa-Poza, A.* (2023). Health perception biases and risky health behaviors in China, Applied Economics Letters, 30(2): 221-228. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2021.1983125.
  19. Yan, W.B. and Nie, P.* (2023). Child education-induced migration and its impact on the economic behaviors of migrated households in China, Applied Economics, 55(7): 691-709. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2022.2094328
  20. Meng, F., Nie, P., and Sousa-Poza, A.* (2023). Obesity inequality and well-being in Germany, Economics and Human Biology, 49: 101236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2023.101236
  21. Meng, F., Nie, P., and Sousa-Poza, A.* (2023). The intangible costs of overweight and obesity in Germany, Health Economics Review, 13: 14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13561-023-00426-x
  22. Zhou, B., ... Nie, P., ... and Ezzati, M.* (2023). Global variations in diabetes mellitus based on fasting glucose and haemoglobin A1c. Nature Medicine, 29, 2885–2901. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-023-02610-2.
  23. Lu, N. #, Nie, P. #, and Siette, J. # (2023). The roots of healthy aging: Investigating the link between early-life and childhood experiences and later-life health, BMC Geriatrics, 23: 639.
  24. Mishra, A., ... Nie, P., ... and Ezzati, M.* (2023). Diminishing benefits of urban living for growth and development of children and adolescents in the 21st century, Nature, 615: 874–883. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05772-8 (Scientific American, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rural-children-now-grow-slightly-taller-than-city-children-in-wealthy-countries/; China News (中国新闻网), 《自然》最新论文：城市青少年儿童生长发育优势或已消失, https://www.chinanews.com.cn/gj/2023/03-30/9981248.shtml)
  25. Lu, H.Y., Nie, P.*, and Qian, L. (2023). The causal effect of internal immigration on sexual attitudes in China: The mediating role of Internet use, Archives of Sexual Behavior, 52: 255-266. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-021-02155-w.
  26. Nie, P., Wang, L., Dragone, D., Lu, H.Y., Sousa-Poza, A.*, and Ziebarth, N.R. (2022) “The better you feel, the harder you fall”: Health perception biases and mental health among Chinese adults in the COVID-19 pandemic, China Economic Review, 71: 101708. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2021.101708.
  27. Nie, P., Clark, A., D’Ambrosio, C., and Ding, L.L.* (2022). Housing and income-related health inequality in urban China (1991-2015): The role of homeownership and housing conditions, Health & Place, 73: 102743,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2022.102743.
  28. Ding, L.L., Jones, A.M., and Nie, P.* (2022). Ex ante inequality of opportunity in health among the elderly in China: A distributional decomposition analysis of biomarkers. Review of Income and Wealth, 46(4): 922-950. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/roiw.12514.
  29. Liu, G.L.*, Li, J.Y., and Nie, P. (2022) Tracking a history on urban expansions of Guangzhou (China) during 1665-2017: Evidence from historical maps and remote sensing images, Land Use Policy, 112: 105773. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105773.
  30. Lu, H.Y., Kandilov, I.T., and Nie, P.* (2022). Heterogeneous impact of social integration on the health of rural-to-urban migrants in China, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(16), 9999; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19169999.
  1. Nie, P.*, Ma, W.L., and Sousa-Poza, A. (2021), The relationship between smartphone use and subjective well-being in rural China, Electronic Commerce Research, 21: 983-1009. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10660-020-09397-1.
  2. Nie, P.*, Li, Q.G, Sousa-Poza, A. (2021). Energy poverty and subjective well-being in China: New evidence from the China Family Panel Studies, Energy Economics, 103: 105548. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2021.105548.
  3. Lu, H.Y.*, Nie, P., and Qian, L. (2021). Do quarantine experiences and attitudes towards COVID-19 affect the distribution of mental health in China? A quantile regression analysis. Applied Research in Quality of Life, 16: 1925-1942. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-020-09851-0.
  4. Nie, P., Li, Q., Cohen, A. and Sousa-Poza, A.* (2021). In search of China’s income-health gradient: A biomarker-based analysis, Applied Economics, 53(48):  5599-5618. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2021.1927962
  5. Nie, P.*, Li, Y., Zhang, N., Sun, X.M., Xin, B. and Wang, Y.F. (2021). The change and correlates of healthy ageing in China: China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study 2011-2015, BMC Geriatrics, 21: 78. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-021-02026-y.
  6. Nie, P.*, Ding, L.L., Sousa-Poza, A., Alfonso León, A, Xue, H., Jia, P., Wang, L., and Wang, Y.F. (2021). Inequality of weight status in urban Cuba, 2001-2010, Population Health Metrics, 19: 24. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12963-021-00251-6.
  7. Nie, P.,# Ding, L.L.,# Chen, Z.,# Liu, S.Y., Zhang, Qi., Shi, Z.M., Wang, L., Xue, H., Liu, Gordon, and Wang, Y.F.* (2021). Decomposition of income-related health inequality among Chinese adults in the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence based on an online survey, International Journal for Equity in Health, 20: 106. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-021-01448-9.
  8. Lu, H.Y., Nie, P.*, and 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: 117-137. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12187-020-09750-8.
  9. Wei, J.X., Wu, Y., Zheng, J.G., Nie, P., Jia, P.* and Wang, Y.F.* (2021). Neighborhood sidewalk access and childhood obesity, Obesity Reviews, 22(S1): e13057. https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.13057.
  10. Zhang, N.*, Zhang, A. Q., Wang, L., and Nie, P. (2021). Fine particulate matter and body weight status among older adults in China: Impacts and pathways, Health & Place, 69: 102571. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2021.102571.
  11. Leng, C.X., Ma, W.L.*, Zhu, Z.K., and Nie, P. (2021), The relationship between happiness and consumption expenditure: Evidence from rural China, Applied Research in Quality of Life, 16: 1587–1611. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-020-09836-z.
  12. Cheng, X.L., Liu, J., Liu, S.Y., Zhang, J., Lin, S.Y, Nie, P., Fuemmeler, B., Wang, Y.F. and Xue, H.* (2021). Does physical activity predict obesity - a machine learning and statistical method-based analysis, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(8), 3966. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18083966.
  13. Zhao, M.Y., Nie, P., Wu, J.* (2021). Heterogeneity in medicine price elasticity of demand in China: Moderate effect from economic incentive and quality difference, Frontiers in Pharmacology, 12: 688069. 10.3389/fphar.2021.688069.
  14. Ma, L., Gao, L.W., Lau, J.T., Atif, R., Johnson, B., Yan, A.F., Shi, Z.M., Ding, Y.X., Nie, P., Zheng, J.G., Wang, Y.F., Wang, W.D.*, and Xue, Q.L.* (2021). Mental distress and its associations with behavioral outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic: A national survey of Chinese adults, Public Health, 198: 315-323. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2021.07.034.
  15. Nie, P.*, Li, Y., Ding, L.L., and 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. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18189911.
  1. Nie, P.*, Ding, L.L., Alfonso León, A, Sousa-Poza, A. Xue, H., Jia, P., Wang, L., Díaz Sánchez, M.E., and Wang, Y.F. (2020), Socioeconomic position and health gradient in Cuba: Dimensions and mechanisms, BMC Public Health, 20: 866. 10.1186/s12889-020-08980-3.
  2. Nie, P.*, Ding, L.L., and Sousa-Poza, A. (2020), What Chinese workers value: An analysis of job satisfaction, job expectations and labor turnover in China, Prague Economic Papers, 29(1): 85-104. https://doi.org/10.18267/j.pep.726.
  3. Ma, W.L., Nie, P., Zhang, P.*, and Renwick, A. (2020), Impact of Internet use on economic well-being of rural households: Evidence from China, Review of Development Economics, 24: 503-523. https://doi.org/10.1111/rode.12645.
  4. Xue, H., Nie, P., Lin, S.Y., Cheng, X.L., Yan, A., and Wang, Y.F. (2020). The medical costs of obesity in China: 2010-2018 national panel data estimates, Obesity, 28: 170.
  1. Nie, P.*, Ding, L.L., and Sousa-Poza, A. (2019), Obesity inequality and the changing shape of the bodyweight distribution in China, China Economic Review, 58: 101348. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2019.101348.
  2. Gwozdz, W., Nie, P.*, and Sousa-Poza, A., et al. (2019), Peer effects on weight status, dietary behavior and physical activity among teenagers in Europe – Findings from the I.Family Study, Kyklos, 72(2): 270-296. https://doi.org/10.1111/kykl.12197.
  3. Nie, P.*, Ding, L.L., Sousa-Poza, A. (2019), Decomposing adult obesity trends in China (1991-2011), Economics & Human Biology, 34: 5-15.
 

      10.1016/j.ehb.2019.02.001.

  1. Nie, P.*, Rammohan, A., Gwozdz, W., and Sousa-Poza, A. (2019), Changes in child nutrition in India: A decomposition approach, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(10), 1815. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16101815.
  2. Zhang, X., Kaiser, M., Nie, P., and 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. https://doi.org/ 10.1371/journal.pone.0222715.
  3. Nie, P.* and Sousa-Poza, A. (2018), Commute time and subjective well-being in urban China, China Economic Review, 48: 188-204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2016.03.002.
  4. Nie, P.* and Sousa-Poza, A. (2018), Food insecurity among Europeans aged 50+, Journal of Population Ageing, 11(2): 133-151. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12062-017-9177-3.
  5. Nie, P.*, Alfonso León, A., Díaz Sánchez, M.E., and Sousa-Poza, A. (2018), The rise in obesity in Cuba from 2001 to 2010: An analysis of National Survey on Risk Factors and Chronic Diseases data, Economics & Human Biology, 28: 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2017.11.003.
  6. Ma, W.L.*, Renwick, A., Nie, P., Tang, J.J. and Cai, R. (2018), Off-farm work, smartphone use and household income: Evidence from rural China, China Economic Review, 52: 80-94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2018.06.002.
  7. Nie, P.*, He, X.B., and Sousa-Poza, A. (2018), Child loss and maternal wages in China, Asian Population Studies, 14(1): 96-112. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441730.2017.1405552.
  8. Reza Oskorouchi, H.*, Nie, P. and Sousa-Poza, A. (2018), Floods and anemia of reproductive-age women in Afghanistan, PLoS One, 13(2): e0191726. https://doi.org/10.1371/journalpone.0191726.
  9. Nie, P.*, Nimrod, G., and Sousa-Poza, A. (2017), Internet use and subjective well-being in China, Social Indicators Research, 132(1): 489-516. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-015-1227-8.
  10. Bauer, J., Levin, V., Boudet, A.M., Nie, P.*, and Sousa-Poza, A. (2017), Subjective well-being across lifespan in Europe and Central Asia, Journal of Population Ageing, 10(2):125-158. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12062-016-9148-0.
  11. Nie, P.*, Gwozdz, W., Reisch, L.A. and Sousa-Poza, A. (2017), Values, norms and peer effects on weight status, Journal of Obesity, vol. 2017, Article ID 2849674. https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/2849674.
  12. Nie, P.*, Sousa-Poza, A., and Xue, J.H. (2016), Fuel for life: Domestic cooking fuels and women’s health in rural China, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 13(8), 810. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13080810.
  13. Nie, P.* and Sousa-Poza, A. (2016), A fresh look at calorie-income elasticities in China, China Agricultural Economic Review, 8(1): 1-29.http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/CAER-09-2014-0095.
  14. Nie, P.*, Otterbach, S., and Sousa-Poza, A. (2015), Long work hours and health in China, China Economic Review, 33: 212-229. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2015.02.004.
  15. Nie, P.*, Sousa-Poza, A., and He, X.B. (2015), Peer effects on childhood and adolescent obesity in China, China Economic Review, 35: 47-69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2015.06.002.
  16. Nie, P.* and Sousa-Poza, A. (2014), Maternal employment and childhood obesity in China: Evidence from China Health and Nutrition Survey, Applied Economics, 46(20): 2418-2428. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2014.902025

(* corresponding author; # equally contributed)

 

Book Chapter

  • Nie, P. and Li, Q.G. (2025). “Homeownership, including low-income homeownership, health and health inequities”. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Global Public Health. New York: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190632366.013.571.
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  • Nie, P. (2025). “Inequality of health opportunity in China – What do we know?”. In Gustafsson, B. and Yang, X.N. (Eds.), Handbook on Inequality in China. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing ((pp. 194-218)). https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035317806.00013.
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  • Nie, P. and Zhao, Y. H. (2023). “Aging in China”. In Bloom, D.E., Sousa-Poza, A., and Sunde, U. (Eds.), Routledge Handbook on the Economics of Ageing. London: Routledge (pp. 691-712). doi: 10.4324/9781003150398-46.

 

Referee Service (500+, including academic journals, books and conferences)

 

Academic journals/books (138):

Economics and Management (38):

Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Risk and Insurance, World Development, Health Economics, American Journal of Health Economics, PharmacoEconomics, Review of Income and Wealth, Energy Economics, China Economic Review, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Economics & Human Biology, The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, China & World Economy, Contemporary Economic Policy, European Journal of Health Economics, Applied Economics, Journal of Asian Economics, Economic Modelling, Environment and Development Economics, Economic Analysis and Policy, Australian Economic Papers, Applied Economics Letter, Journal of Family and Economic Issues, China Agricultural Economic Review, Review of Development Economics, Journal of Applied Economics, Singapore Economic Review, Economies, Economics Bulletin, Journal of Environmental Management, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Electronic Commerce Research, International Journal of Manpower

 

Health, Aging and Development (74):

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), British Medical Journal (BMJ), BMJ Public Health, BMJ Global Health, iScience, One Earth, Preventive Medicine, Social Science & Medicine, Journal of Medical Internet Research, JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, JMIR Research Protocols, SSM-Population Health, npj Mental Health Research, European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, BMJ Open, BMC Public Health, BMC Health Services Research,  Journal of Mental Health, Journal of Transport & Health, Health Education & Behavior, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, International Journal of Health Policy and Management, Environmental Health Insights, Journal of Physical Activity & Health, Frontiers in Public Health, Inquiry, Family Practice, Healthcare, International Journal of Health Planning and Management, Health Care for Women International, Nutrients, Food Security, Children and Youth Services Review, Youth & Society, Journal of Affective Disorders, Journal of Migration and Health, Journal of Population Ageing, Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences, BMC Geriatrics, Ageing and Mental Health, Research on Aging, Frontiers in Aging, International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics Plus, Aging and Health Research, Journal of Aging & Social Policy, Journal of Aging and Health, Journal of Happiness Studies, Cities, Habitat International, Housing Studies, Asian Population Studies, Women’s Studies International Forum, Sustainability, Atmosphere, Learning and Individual Differences, Information Technology & People, Agriculture, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Energy and Buildings, Energy Research & Social Science, Scientific Reports, Wellbeing, Space & Society, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, Brain and Behavior, Smart Cities, Current Issues in Tourism, Journal of Cleaner Production, Climate and Development, International Journal of Consumer Studies

 

Sociology (7):

Social Indicators Research, Social Science Research, Chinese Journal of Sociology, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Social Science Journal, International Sociology, Societies

 

Others (13):

Frontiers in Psychology, Cogent Psychology, Current Psychology, Acta Psychologica, Cyberpsychology, Behavioral Sciences, PLoS One, Safety, Heliyon, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Social Sciences & Humanities Open, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, SAGE Open, 4 Chinese CSSCI journals

Book review (2):

Behavioural, Health and Social Sciences (Springer)

Edward Elgar Publishing

 

Academic conferences:

Invited anonymous Referee Committee Member (in the fields of Health Economics and Development Economics) of Spring Meeting of Young Economists (SMYE)

  • 21st SMYE 2016, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 22nd SMYE 2017, Halle, Germany
  • 23rd SMYE 2018, Mallorca, Spain  
  • 24th SMYE 2019, ​Brussels, Belgium
  • 25th SMYE 2020, ​Bologna, Italy
  • 26th SMYE 2022, Orléans, France

Selected member of the Scientific Committee Review Panel for

  • 2017 World Congress of iHEA, Boston, US
  • 2019 World Congress of iHEA, Basel, Switzerland
  • 2021 World Congress of iHEA (online)
  • 2023 World Congress of iHEA, Cape Town, South Africa
  • 2025 World Congress of iHEA, Bali, Indonesia

Organization Committee and Review Panel Member of the Third Belt & Road Initiative Global Health International Congress

  • Third Belt & Road Initiative Global Health International Congress & 2019 Global Health Forum of the University of Alliance of the Silk Road, Global Health Institute (GHI), Xi’an Jiaotong University Health Science Center, Xi’an, China
  • Fourth Belt & Road Initiative Global Health International Congress & 2022 Global Health Forum of the University of Alliance of the Silk Road, Global Health Institute (GHI), Xi’an Jiaotong University Health Science Center, Xi’an, China
  • Fifth Belt & Road Initiative Global Health International Congress & 2024 Global Health Forum of the University of Alliance of the Silk Road, Xi’an Hotel, Xi’an, China

 

External Review Expert for the PhD/Master Dissertation

  • PhD Dissertation Referee, Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University, Australia
  • PhD Dissertation Referee, Monash Business School, Monash University, Australia
  • PhD Dissertation Referee, Department of Economics, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Kampar campus, Malaysia
  • PhD Dissertation Referee, Shanghai University of Finance & Economics, Nankai University, Tongji University, Renmin University of China, Tongji University, China
  • Master Thesis Referee, Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University, Australia
  • Master Thesis Referee, School of Public Administration, Southwest University of Finance and Economics

 

 

Membership             

   

  • International Health Economics Association (iHEA, since 2015)
  • The Economics of Obesity Special Interest Group (EOSIG, iHEA, since 2018)
  • The European Health Economics Association (EuHEA, since 2017)
  • The European Association of Young Economists (EAYE, since 2015)
  • The Chinese Economists Society (CES, since 2017)
  • Global Labor Organization (GLO Fellow, since 2018)
  • China Health Policy and Management Society (CHPAMS, since 2018)
  • Research Network “Inequality and Economic Policy Analysis” (INEPA), University of Hohenheim, Germany (since 2018)
  • IZA - Institute of Labor Economics (Bonn, Germany, since 2019)
  • The International Chinese Nutrition Young Scholar Network (ICNYSN, since 2019)
  • Youth Committee of China Health Economics Association (committee member, since 2019)
  • Health Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG), University of York, UK (since 2020)
  • Global Network for Ageing Research on China (GNARC), University of Manchester, UK (since 2021)
  • Asia-Pacific Association of Scientific Research (APASR, since 2022)
  • European China Health Economics and Outcomes Research Association (ECHORA, since February 2025)

 

Languages 

                                                       

English (fluent); German (basic); Chinese (native)