Ethan Lieber

Ethan Lieber is the Gilbert F. Schaefer Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses on health economics, particularly information frictions in healthcare, public finance, industrial organization, and the opioid crisis. He earned his Ph.D., M.A., and B.A. from the University of Chicago.

Research interests concentrate on health economics with specific focus areas including:

• Information asymmetry in healthcare markets
• Economic analysis of the opioid epidemic
• Physician prescribing behaviors
• Insurance market dynamics
• Medicaid policy evaluation

Publication trends show consistent focus on empirical health economics, with recent work centered on opioid crisis origins, Medicaid policy, and pharmaceutical industry influences. Earlier work examined insurance markets and malpractice reform.

Research affiliations include the National Bureau of Economic Research healthcare program. Teaching responsibilities include health economics, econometrics, and microeconomics courses.