Nicolas R Ziebarth
Biographic Data
| ID | 1144532 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicolas R Ziebarth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicolas R |
| FAMILY NAME | Ziebarth |
| SIGNATURE | ZIEBARTH N R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3562-2371 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Anatomy of U.S. Sick Leave Schemes: Evidence from Public School Teachers
We study how public school teachers use paid sick leave. Most US sick leave schemes operate as individualized credit accounts: Paid leave is earned, and unused leave accumulates. We construct a unique dataset of daily leave balances and behavior among 982 teachers for 2010–2018. Sick leave use increases during flu season, and evidence indicates that the average teacher does not use sick leave for leisure, though some subsets of teachers (e.g., th…
German Long-Term Health Insurance: Theory Meets Evidence
Passing on the flame: Do mega sports events promote health behaviours
To justify billion-dollar public expenditures on mega sports events, proponents often suggest lasting improvements in health behaviours among the general public. To estimate the returns to health behaviours from hosting the 2012 London Olympics, we collected panel data on more than 19,000 respondents across two European capitals, London and Paris, between 2011 and 2013. Using a difference-in-differences design with Paris as counterfactual, we fin…
The Experience of Implementing a Low-Threshold Buprenorphine Treatment Program in a Non-Urban Medical Practice
BACKGROUND: To respond to the U.S. opioid crisis, new models of healthcare delivery for opioid use disorder treatment are essential. We used a qualitative approach to describe the implementation of a low-threshold buprenorphine treatment program in an independent, community-based medical practice in Ithaca, NY. METHODS: We conducted 17 semi-structured interviews with program staff, leadership, and external stakeholders. Then we analyzed these dat…
Covid-19 booster uptake among US adults: Assessing the impact of vaccine attributes, incentives, and context in a choice-based experiment
Positive Health Externalities of Mandating Paid Sick Leave
A growing economic literature studies the optimal design of social insurance systems and the empirical identification of welfare‐relevant externalities. In this paper, we test whether mandating employee access to paid sick leave has reduced influenza‐like‐illness (ILI) transmission rates as well as pneumonia and influenza (P&I) mortality rates in the United States. Using uniquely compiled data from administrative sources at the state‐week level f…
Quantifying the Intangible Impact of the Olympics Using Subjective Well-Being Data
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data
U.S. Child Safety Seat Laws: Are they Effective, and Who Complies
This paper assesses the effectiveness of child safety seat laws in the United States. Over the past 35 years, these laws have steadily increased mandatory child safety seat restraint ages. We exploit state-year level variation in the age until which children are required to ride in child safety seats to estimate triple difference models using Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) data from 1975 to 2011. Our findings show that increasing the a…
The Host with the Most? The Effects of the Olympic Games on Happiness
How Natural Disasters Can Affect Environmental Concerns, Risk Aversion, and Even Politics: Evidence from Fukushima and Three European Countries
How natural disasters can affect environmental concerns, risk aversion, and even politics: Evidence from Fukushima and three European countries
The Determinants of Plant Survival in the U.S. Radio Equipment Industry During the Great Depression
Automobile manufacture is generally regarded as the paradigmatic mass production industry, with large plants able to exploit scale economies. We argue that the radio industry also sheds important light on evolving production technology and determinants of competitive success in inter-war manufacturing. Timothy F. Bresnahan and Daniel M.G. Raff (1991) showed that productivity differences resulting from scale in the auto industry translated into di…
Natural Disaster, Policy Action, and Mental Well-Being: The Case of Fukushima
Estimating Price Elasticities of Convalescent Care Programmes
This study is the first to estimate price elasticities of demand for convalescent care programmes. In 1997, the German legislature more than doubled the daily co-payments for the publicly insured from €6 to €13. The measure caused the overall demand for convalescent care treatments to fall by 20 to 25%. I estimate the price elasticity for medical rehabilitation programmes aimed at preventing work disability to be about - 0.3, whereas the elastici…
Measurement of health, health inequality, and reporting heterogeneity
Measurement of health, health inequality, and reporting heterogeneity
How natural disasters can affect environmental concerns, risk aversion, and even politics: Evidence from Fukushima and three European countries
Covid-19 booster uptake among US adults: Assessing the impact of vaccine attributes, incentives, and context in a choice-based experiment
German Long-Term Health Insurance: Theory Meets Evidence
The Determinants of Plant Survival in the U.S. Radio Equipment Industry During the Great Depression
Automobile manufacture is generally regarded as the paradigmatic mass production industry, with large plants able to exploit scale economies. We argue that the radio industry also sheds important light on evolving production technology and determinants of competitive success in inter-war manufacturing. Timothy F. Bresnahan and Daniel M.G. Raff (1991) showed that productivity differences resulting from scale in the auto industry translated into di…
Estimating Price Elasticities of Convalescent Care Programmes
This study is the first to estimate price elasticities of demand for convalescent care programmes. In 1997, the German legislature more than doubled the daily co-payments for the publicly insured from €6 to €13. The measure caused the overall demand for convalescent care treatments to fall by 20 to 25%. I estimate the price elasticity for medical rehabilitation programmes aimed at preventing work disability to be about - 0.3, whereas the elastici…
Estimating Price Elasticities of Convalescent Care Programmes
This study is the first to estimate price elasticities of demand for convalescent care programmes. In 1997, the German legislature more than doubled the daily co-payments for the publicly insured from €6 to €13. The measure caused the overall demand for convalescent care treatments to fall by 20 to 25%. I estimate the price elasticity for medical rehabilitation programmes aimed at preventing work disability to be about - 0.3, whereas the elastici…
Measurement of health, health inequality, and reporting heterogeneity
Natural Disaster, Policy Action, and Mental Well-Being: The Case of Fukushima
How Natural Disasters Can Affect Environmental Concerns, Risk Aversion, and Even Politics: Evidence from Fukushima and Three European Countries
How natural disasters can affect environmental concerns, risk aversion, and even politics: Evidence from Fukushima and three European countries
The Determinants of Plant Survival in the U.S. Radio Equipment Industry During the Great Depression
Automobile manufacture is generally regarded as the paradigmatic mass production industry, with large plants able to exploit scale economies. We argue that the radio industry also sheds important light on evolving production technology and determinants of competitive success in inter-war manufacturing. Timothy F. Bresnahan and Daniel M.G. Raff (1991) showed that productivity differences resulting from scale in the auto industry translated into di…
The Host with the Most? The Effects of the Olympic Games on Happiness
U.S. Child Safety Seat Laws: Are they Effective, and Who Complies
This paper assesses the effectiveness of child safety seat laws in the United States. Over the past 35 years, these laws have steadily increased mandatory child safety seat restraint ages. We exploit state-year level variation in the age until which children are required to ride in child safety seats to estimate triple difference models using Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) data from 1975 to 2011. Our findings show that increasing the a…
Quantifying the Intangible Impact of the Olympics Using Subjective Well-Being Data
Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data
Positive Health Externalities of Mandating Paid Sick Leave
A growing economic literature studies the optimal design of social insurance systems and the empirical identification of welfare‐relevant externalities. In this paper, we test whether mandating employee access to paid sick leave has reduced influenza‐like‐illness (ILI) transmission rates as well as pneumonia and influenza (P&I) mortality rates in the United States. Using uniquely compiled data from administrative sources at the state‐week level f…
The Experience of Implementing a Low-Threshold Buprenorphine Treatment Program in a Non-Urban Medical Practice
BACKGROUND: To respond to the U.S. opioid crisis, new models of healthcare delivery for opioid use disorder treatment are essential. We used a qualitative approach to describe the implementation of a low-threshold buprenorphine treatment program in an independent, community-based medical practice in Ithaca, NY. METHODS: We conducted 17 semi-structured interviews with program staff, leadership, and external stakeholders. Then we analyzed these dat…
Covid-19 booster uptake among US adults: Assessing the impact of vaccine attributes, incentives, and context in a choice-based experiment
German Long-Term Health Insurance: Theory Meets Evidence
Passing on the flame: Do mega sports events promote health behaviours
To justify billion-dollar public expenditures on mega sports events, proponents often suggest lasting improvements in health behaviours among the general public. To estimate the returns to health behaviours from hosting the 2012 London Olympics, we collected panel data on more than 19,000 respondents across two European capitals, London and Paris, between 2011 and 2013. Using a difference-in-differences design with Paris as counterfactual, we fin…
The Anatomy of U.S. Sick Leave Schemes: Evidence from Public School Teachers
We study how public school teachers use paid sick leave. Most US sick leave schemes operate as individualized credit accounts: Paid leave is earned, and unused leave accumulates. We construct a unique dataset of daily leave balances and behavior among 982 teachers for 2010–2018. Sick leave use increases during flu season, and evidence indicates that the average teacher does not use sick leave for leisure, though some subsets of teachers (e.g., th…
Economics (12 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Environmental health (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Global Health Care Issues (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Econometrics (4 works)