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

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).