Helge Liebert

Helge Liebert

Data Scientist
Swiss National Bank

Research

Working papers

  1. Who Increases Emergency Department Use? New Insights from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment 2022, Tulane University/University of Zürich (With A. Denteh) Revise and resubmit at the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A.
  2. Behavioral Responses to Supply-Side Drug Policy During the Opioid Epidemic 2021, Harvard University/University of Zürich (With S. Balestra, N. Maestas and T. Sherri)

Articles

  1. Physicians and the Production of Health: Returns to Health Care during the Mortality Transition 2023, The Review of Economics and Statistics , forthcoming (With B. Mäder) Winner of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics Young Economist Award 2018.
  2. Peers with Special Needs: Effects and Policies 2022, The Review of Economics and Statistics 104, 602-618 (With S. Balestra and B. Eugster) Winner of the Swiss Prize for Research in Education 2021.
  3. Summer-born struggle: The effect of school starting age on health, education, and work 2020, Health Economics 29, 591–607 (With S. Balestra and B. Eugster)
  4. Does external medical review reduce disability insurance inflow? 2019, Journal of Health Economics 64, 108–128
  5. Disability discrimination in higher education: analyzing the quality of counseling services 2017, Education Economics 25, 543–553 (With E. Deuchert, L. Kauer and C. Wuppermann)
  6. Aging faster in office? the effect of extended service in political office on longevity 2016, Applied Economics Letters 23, 510–515 (With E. Deuchert)
  7. On the heterogeneity of terror 2014, European Economic Review 68, 116–136 (With K. Kis-Katos and G. Schulze)
  8. On the origin of domestic and international terrorism 2011, European Journal of Political Economy 27, 17–36 (With K. Kis-Katos and G. Schulze)

Work in progress

  1. Estimating work capacity in the US population 2020, Harvard University (With N. Maestas, K. Mullen and S. Rose)
  2. Dealing with uncertainty: Seller reputation in the online market for illegal drugs 2019, Harvard University/University of St. Gallen (With N. Eschenbaum)

Other publications

  1. Predicting disability enrollment using machine learning 2019, NBER Disability Research Center Paper NB 18-Q4, Harvard University/NBER (With T. Layton, N. Maestas, D. Prinz and B. Vabson)
  2. Arbeitsanreize in der Schweizerischen Invalidenversicherung 2016, Education Permanente 1, 40–44 (With B. Eugster)
  3. Gezeigt dass es geht? Wirksamkeit unterschiedlicher Politikansätze zur Integration von Menschen mit Behinderung aus volkswirtschaftlicher Perspektive 2013, in: Berufliche Inklusion von Menschen mit Behinderung: Best Practices aus dem ersten Arbeitsmarkt, Berlin-Heidelberg: Springer, 23–43 (With E. Deuchert)