Nicolas Ziebarth

Nicolas Ziebarth

Nicolas Ziebarth is an Assistant Professor in the Department for Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University. Before coming to Cornell, Professor Ziebarth worked as a research associate at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). He holds a PhD in Economics from the Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin), where he graduated in 2011. Dr. Ziebarth's PhD thesis deals with "Sickness Absence and Economic Incentives." It has been awarded the Upjohn Institute Dissertation Award 2011.

Nicolas Ziebarth's research is in the field of applied health and labor economics. In particular, he analyzes the interaction of social security systems with labor markets and population health. Another focus of his work is the driving forces and implications of health-related behavior.

• B.S., Economics, Humboldt University Berlin (HU Berlin), 2003
• B.S., Business and Economics Education, HU Berlin, 2003
• M.S., Economics, Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin), 2006
• M.S., Business Studies, TU Berlin, 2006
• Ph.D., Economics, TU Berlin/German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), 2011

• PAM 5570: Health Care Organizations (Sloan Program)
• PAM 6420: Health Economics II (PhD Program)

• Repec
• IZA
• Google Scholar

A. ARTICLES IN ECONOMIC JOURNALS

• Ziebarth, N. R. and M. Karlsson (2013): "The Effects of Expanding the Generosity of the Statutory Sickness Insurance System," Journal of Applied Econometrics, forthcoming. [long version available here]

• Frick, J. R. and N. R. Ziebarth (2013): "Welfare-Related Health Inequalities: Does the Choice of Measure Matter?" European Journal of Health Economics, 14(3): 431-442.

• Ziebarth, N. R. (2010): "Estimating Price Elasticities of Convalescent Care Programmes," The Economic Journal, 120(545): 816-844.

• Ziebarth, N. R. and M. Karlsson (2010): "A Natural Experiment on Sick Pay Cuts, Sickness Absence, and Labor Costs," Journal of Public Economics, 94(11-12): 1108-1122.

B. ARTICLES IN POLICY JOURNALS & MULTIDISCIPLINARY JOURNALS

• Eibich, P. and N. R. Ziebarth (2013): "Analyzing Regional Variation in Health Care Utilization Using (Rich) Household Microdata" Health Policy, Special Issue: Geographic Variation in Health Care: 40 Years of Small-Area Variations. forthcoming.

• Ziebarth, N. R. (2012): "Why Current Reimbursement Rates Are Inefficient," Health Affairs, 31(8): 1911.

• Ziebarth, N. R. (2010): "Measurement of Health, Health Inequality, and Reporting Heterogeneity," Social Science & Medicine, 71(1): 116-124.

• Ziebarth, N. R. and M. M. Grabka (2009): "In Vino Pecunia? The Association Between Beverage-Specific Drinking Behavior and Wages," Journal of Labor Research, 30(3): 219-244

More publications: www.human.cornell.edu/pam/people/nicolas_ziebarth.cfm

health economics, labor economics, microeconometrics