Nicolas Robert Ziebarth

Nicolas Robert Ziebarth is a Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim and Head of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance at ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research. His work bridges health economics, labor markets, and social insurance policy, with affiliations at the University of Basel's Faculty of Business and Economics and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). He edits the NEP report on Health Economics and contributes extensively to policy debates through empirical analyses.

• Primary Affiliation: Department of Economics, University of Mannheim
• Research Institutes: ZEW (Mannheim), IZA (Bonn)

His research focuses on health economics, labor market dynamics, and social insurance mechanisms. Key themes include:

• Moral hazard in health and disability insurance
• Policy effects on healthcare access inequality
• Behavioral economics of health perception biases
• Impact of environmental factors on health
• Cost-sharing in insurance markets
• Long-term care incentives

Recent publications analyze:

• 2025: German Long-Term Health Insurance frameworks
• 2024: Olympic event health behavior spillovers and health expenditure tail modeling
• 2023: E-cigarette age policies and sick leave mandates

His methodological approach combines econometric analysis with field experiments, emphasizing policy-relevant findings about health-labor interactions, insurance market design, and behavioral health economics. Current work explores pandemic-induced health behavior shifts and climate change health costs.