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Wencke Gwozdz

Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

IZA World of Labor role

Author, Topic spokesperson

Expertise

Health, Obesity, Dietary behaviour, Peer effects, Maternal employment, Childhood obesity

Country

Denmark

Languages

German - Native speaker, English - Non-native speaker, Danish - Non-native speaker

Media experience

Print, Digital, Radio

Email

wg.ikl@cbs.dk

Phone

45 38153391

Current position

Associate Professor in Transformative Consumer Behaviour and Sustainability, Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Website

https://www.uni-giessen.de/de/fbz/fb09/institute/VKE/verbraucher/team/gwozdz-wencke

Past positions

Assistant Professor, Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark (09/2010–12/2012); Postdoc, Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark (09/2009–08/2010); PhD student, Chair for Household and Consumer Economics as well as Gender Economics, University of Hohenheim, Germany (07/2005–02/2009)

Qualifications

PhD Economics and Business Administration, University of Hohenheim, 2009

Selected publications

  • “Peer effects on obesity in a sample of European children.” Economics & Human Biology 18 (2015): 139–152 (with A. Sousa-Poza, L. Reisch, K. Bammann, G. Eiben, Y. Kourides, E. Kovacs, F. Lauria, K. Konstabel, A. M. Santaliestra-Pasias, K. Vyncke, and I. Pigeot).

  • “Maternal employment and childhood obesity: A European perspective.” Journal of Health Economics 32:4 (2013): 728–742 (with A. Sousa-Poza, L. Reisch, W. Ahrens, G. Eiben, J. M. Fernández-Alvira, C. Hadjigeorgiou, S. De Henauw, E. Kovács, F. Lauria, T. Veidebaum, G. Williams, and K. Bammann).

  • “Socioeconomic factors and childhood overweight in Europe: Results from the multi-centre IDEFICS study.” Pediatric Obesity 8:1 (2013): 1–12 (with K. Bammann, A. Lanfer, J. M. Fernández-Alvira, E. Kovács, G. Barba, S. De Henauw, G. Eiben, M. Tornaritis, T. Veidebaum, and I. Pigeot).

  • “Instruments for analyzing the influence of advertising on children’s food choices.” International Journal of Obesity 35 (2011): S137–S143 (with L. Reisch).

  • “Ageing, health and life satisfaction of the oldest old: An analysis for Germany.” Social Indicators Research 97:3 (2010): 397–417 (with A. Sousa-Poza).

article(s)

  • Is maternal employment related to childhood obesity?

    Institutions and policies affect whether working mothers raise heavier children

    Wencke Gwozdz, June 2016
    Childhood obesity has been rising steadily in most parts of the world. Popular speculation attributes some of that increase to rising maternal employment. Employed mothers spend less time at home and thus less time with their children, whose diets and physical activity may suffer. Also, children of working mothers may spend more time in the care of others, whose childcare quality may vary substantially. While a majority of US studies support this hypothesis and have clear policy implications, recent studies in other countries are less conclusive, largely because institutional arrangements differ but also because methodologies do.
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