Welcome
Welcome, I am an Associate Professor of Public Health at the Department of Economics, Econometrics and Finance at the University of Groningen (Netherlands). Before that, I was a Senior Researcher at ETH Zurich, KOF Swiss Economic Institute (Switzerland). Moreover, I am a research fellow at IZA. I completed my PhD studies at Goethe University Frankfurt and TU Darmstadt (Germany).
My sick leave research has been featured by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal or the Economist, and cited as a reason for the Healthy Families Act and the FFCRA emergency sick leave provision. Furthermore, I have recently written an editorial on paid sick leave, which was published in TheHill.
Research Interests: Health Economics, Labour Economics, Applied Econometrics.
My full CV may be found here.
My Google Citations Site is available here. You can follow me on Twitter @StefanPEcon.
Contact:
Stefan Pichler
University of GroningenDepartment of Economics, Econometrics and FinanceZernike Campus, Duisenberg BuildingNettelbosje 29747AE Groningen (The Netherlands)E-mail: s.pichler@rug.nlNews:
January 2023:
I was invited to become an Associate Editor for Economics & Human Biology. I am very honored by this request and very much looking forward to seeing this perspective of the peer-review process.
November 2021:
I started working at the University of Groningen as Associate Professor of Public Health.
July 2021:
Our research paper on Awareness and use of (emergency) sick leave was published in the current issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). Follow the link to check out the article or go to Publications to see the Abstract.
Our research on the health effects of paid sick leave was published in the current issue of Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. Follow the link to check out the article or go to Publications to see the Abstract.
March 2021:
Check out Further Research for our new version of Mandated Sick Pay: Coverage, Utilization and Welfare Effects.
New article on VoxEU and Ökonomenstimme.
January 2021:
My paper on the measurement on inequality Measuring Inequality using Geo-Spatial Data has been accepted for poster presentation at the ASSA 2021. If you want to find out more have a look at the poster (link) or the Working Paper (link). The Abstract to the paper can be found in Further Research.
October 2020:
Ahead of print publication of COVID-19 Emergency Sick Leave Has Helped Flatten The Curve In The United States https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00863
July 2020:
Our research project on paid leave received funding from the Washington Center for Equitable growth https://equitablegrowth.org/grants/employers-and-paid-leave-assessing-the-interdependencies-between-state-level-mandates-medical-leave-and-voluntary-provisions-of-paid-leave/