Ethan Lieber
Department of Economics
Gilbert F. Schaefer Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
- Health economics
- Information frictions in health care
- Intersections of health care with public finance and industrial organization
- Econometrics and the principles of microeconomics
- Opioid related research — the causes and consequences of the dramatic rise in opioid and drug deaths
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Medical Xpress
Researchers find doctors played a critical role in the nation's opioid crisis
July 20, 2026
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame found that doctors had a hand in fueling the opioid crisis by aggressively prescribing opioids to treat chronic pain. According to William Evans and Ethan Lieber, both from Notre Dame's Department of Economics and co-authors of an article published in the Journal of Human Resources, physicians began prescribing opioids to treat chronic pain more extenstively and more often in the late 1990s.
Economics, Applied (Podcast)
Prescription for Disaster: Drug Deaths in America
Audio
June 10, 2026
Host Steven Davis speaks with William Evans and Ethan Lieber about the heartbreaking rise of deaths due to drug misuse in the United States.