Sonja
Spitzer

Demography & Economics

I am a researcher and lecturer at the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, University of Vienna, Austria and affiliated with the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan and the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. Currently, I am visiting the University of Chicago, hosted by Prof. James Heckman. I also serve as an editor for the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research.

My research aims at understanding the causes behind health and earnings disparities across gender and socioeconomic groups. Using demographic and microeconomic perspectives, I investigate how human capital, life events, and labour market outcomes interact across the life course and shape inequalities in survival. I am also working on improved methods to measure health and ageing across populations. 

Get in touch if you would like to discuss your work or mine!