Nicolas R. Ziebarth

Nicolas Robert Ziebarth (born May 25 1982 in Frankfurt, Germany) is a university professor at the University of Mannheim and the ZEW- the Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research. Since 2022, he is head of their Research Unit "Labour Markets and Social Insurance." Since its founding in 2021, he served as a tenured Associate Professor in Cornell's Brooks School of Public Policy and the Department of Economics. Prior to that, he was an Assistant Professor (2011-2017) and then tenured Associate Professor (2017-2021) in Cornell's Department of Policy Analysis and Management.

His research studies the interaction of social insurance systems with population health and labor markets. In particular, he is a leading international expert on the economics of sick leave. His work has been influential in shaping policy creation, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic: his research is cited as key reasoning for the Healthy Families Act, the initial FFCRA emergency sick leave provision, and its extension. He is currently ranked by RePEc as #68 of all 31,386 registered economists worldwide with less than 15 years of research activity and #8 in the cohort of 2011 graduates.

Ziebarth also supports the education of students globally through his teaching. From 2011 to 2022, taught courses in Cornell's Sloan Program in Health Administration, the Department of Economics and the College of Human Ecology. Furthermore, he served as an associate director of the interdisciplinary Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures

Since 2022, he has also held a position as a senior editor at the Journal of Risk and Insurance.

Ziebarth is the author of many publications, a sampling of which is below.

Education Nicolas Ziebarth received the German equivalent ("Vordiplom") of bachelor's degrees in (i) economics and business as well as (ii) economics education from Humboldt University in Berlin (HU Berlin) in 2003. During this time, he was member of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) department. His dissertation, supervised by Gert G. Wagner and Regina T. Riphahn, entitled "Sickness Absence and Economic Incentives", was awarded the 2011 Upjohn Institute Dissertation Award. Dr. Ziebarth received his PHD in economics from TU/DIW Berlin in 2011.

Awards Since 2022, Ziebarth has been ranked as a top economist by IDEAS RePc (named in the top 0.2% of young economists, top 10% in health economists, and #8 in the 2011 graduate cohort). He was also given the Early Career Scholarly Achievement Award by American Risk and Insurance Association, ranked #12 in the Handelsblatt Ranking of all German-speaking economists under the age of 40, and named as one of Capitol Magazine's Top 40 Under 40. He also received the Emerald Literati Award in 2019 for Outstanding Author Contribution, the Health Economics Science Award from the German Association of Health Economists in 2018 and 2026, the 2017 Raymond Vernon Memorial Award for best paper in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and the Small Area Variation Health Services Research Award from the ZI-Wissenschaftspreis Regionale Versorgungsforschung in 2015.

Selected publications