Professor Ziebarth is an economist whose research focuses on insurance markets and health risks. Dr. Ziebarth studies the interaction of (social) insurance systems with labor markets and population health. Another focus of his work is the driving forces and implications of risky health behavior such as smoking, drinking, or overeating. Dr. Ziebarth has won several awards for his research.
He is a Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim in Mannheim, Germany. Previously at Cornell, he taught 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).