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Biography
Professor Ziebarth is an economist whose research focuses on health, public and labor economics. Dr. Ziebarth studies the interaction of (social) insurance systems with labor markets and population health. Another focus of Dr. Ziebarth's work is the driving forces and implications of risky health behavior such as smoking, drinking, or overeating.
In particular, Nicolas Ziebarth is an international expert on the economics of sick leave. His sick leave research has been featured by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal or the Economist, and cited as a reason for the Healthy Families Act and the FFCRA emergency sick leave provision.
Dr. Ziebarth has won several awards for his research. According to RePEc, he ranks among the top 0.5% of young economists with less than 15 years of research activity.
At Cornell, Professor Ziebarth teaches a comparative health care system course for undergraduate students (PAM 3870), a Sloan MHA introductory course to the U.S. health care system (PAM 5570), and the second sequence of health economics for PhD students (PAM 6420).
Professor Ziebarth is Associate Director of the Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures.
Marcus, J., Siedler, T. and N.R. Ziebarth (2020): “The Long-Run Effects of Subsidized Sports Club Memberships for Children on Take-Up and Physical Activity,” revise & resubmit, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
Werbeck, A.; Wübker, A., and N. R Ziebarth (2020): “Cream-Skimming by Health Care Providers and Inequality in Health Care Access: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment,” IZA Discussion Paper No. 13100, revise & resubmit, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
Lavetti, K., DeLeire, T. and N. R. Ziebarth (2020): “How Do Low-Income Enrollees in the Affordable Care Act Exchanges Respond to Cost-Sharing?” NBER Working Paper No. 26430, revise & resubmit, Journal of Risk and Insurance.
Maclean, C., Pichler, S. and N. R. Ziebarth (2020): “Mandated Sick Pay: Coverage, Utilization, and Welfare Effects,” NBER Working Paper No. 26832, under review,
Hackmann, M., Pohl, V. and N.R. Ziebarth (2020): “Patient vs. Provider Incentives in Long Term Care,” under review.
Atal, J.P.; Fang, H.; Karlsson, M.; and N. R. Ziebarth (2020): “Long-Term Health Insurance: Theory Meets Evidence,” NBER Working Paper No. 26870.
Pichler, S. and N. R. Ziebarth (2017): "The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes: Testing for Contagious Presenteeism and Noncontagious Absenteeism Behavior," Journal of Public Economics, 156: 14-33. [Reprint] Health Economics Science Award 2018
Susser, P. and N. R. Ziebarth (2016): "Profiling the United States Sick Leave Landscape: Presenteeism among Females," Health Services Research, 51(6): 2305-2317.
Jin, L. and N. R. Ziebarth (2020): "Sleep, Health, and Human Capital: Evidence from Daylight Saving Time," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 170: 174-192 [JEBO paper available here]
“Welcome to the Pandemic Cliff,” by Nick Martin, The New Republic, December 1, 2020
“Millions of Workers Poised to Lose Access to Paid Leave as Virus Spikes,” by Eleanor Mueller, Politico Nov 29, 2020
“COVID-19 Sick Leave Likely Prevented Thousands Of Cases,” by Emily Peck, The Huffington Post, Nov 25, 2020
“America Chose Sickness, and Lost the Economy,” by Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, November 2, 2020
“Krankenversicherung: Bitte hinten anstellen--Eine neue Studie belegt: Kassenpatienten müssen doppelt so lange auf einen Arzttermin warten wie Privatversicherte,” by Lucia Heisterkamp, Die Zeit, June 24 2020.
“Terminvergabe bei Fachärzten: Privatpatienten wurden bevorzugt,” by Kim Björn Becker, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (title page), June 28, 2020
“Why the U.S. Urgently Needs Paid Sick Leave,” by Judy Stone, Forbes, March 10, 2020
“Coronavirus Sick Leave: Walmart, McDonald’s, Olive Garden add COVID-19 Paid Sick Leave Policies,” by Jessica Guynn and Kelly Tyko, USA Today, March 9, 2020
“Workers without Paid Sick Leave Confront Coronavirus,” by Charlotte Kesl, The Washington Post, March 9, 2020
- PAM 3780: Sick Around the World? Comparing Health Care Systems Around the World (Undergraduate Level)
- PAM 5570: Health Care Organizations (Sloan MHA Program)
- PAM 6420: Health Economics II (PhD Program)
Ph.D., Economics, TU Berlin/DIW Berlin, 2011
M.Sc., Economics, TU Berlin, 2006
M.Sc., Business Studies, TU Berlin, 2006
B.Sc., Economics, HU Berlin, 2003
B.Sc., Business and Economics Education, HU Berlin, 2003