Sonja Spitzer
University of Vienna
 sonja.spitzer@univie.ac.at
sites.google.com/view/sonjaspitzer

Sonja Spitzer is a researcher and lecturer at the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, University of Vienna, Austria, and a visiting researcher at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan. Her research aims to understand the causes behind health and earnings disparities across gender and socioeconomic groups. Using demographic and microeconomic perspectives, she investigates how human capital, life events, and labour market outcomes interact across the life course and shape inequalities in survival. She is also working on improved methods to measure health and ageing across populations. Currently, Dr. Spitzer leads the Skill-PAL project, which examines human capital loss around childbirth and during parental leave, using administrative data from Austria and Sweden. She also co-authored the project “Life is about timing: Health shocks and socioeconomic inequality across the life cycle” at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan.