Hans-Martin von Gaudecker

Hans-Martin von Gaudecker is a Professor of Applied Microeconomics at the University of Bonn's Department of Economics. He holds multiple prestigious research positions including Research Team Leader (Structural Policy Evaluation) at IZA (Institute of Labor Economics), and is a Research Fellow at IZA, CESifo, Netspar, and MEA-MPISOC. He also serves as a Cluster Faculty Member at ECONtribute, Principal Investigator of the Collaborative Research Center TR/224, and Speaker of the Transdisciplinary Research Area 'Individuals, Institutions and Societies'.

His educational background includes studying Economics at Mannheim and Heidelberg, completing his doctorate in Economics in 2007 at the University of Mannheim. His primary research interests focus on modeling life-cycle behavior of households and informing public policy to reduce inequality, with particular expertise in applied microeconometrics, labor and health economics.

His publication record demonstrates strong engagement with contemporary economic challenges, particularly the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, household financial decision-making, and labor market dynamics. His work spans both theoretical econometric modeling and practical policy analysis.

As an educator, he teaches Applied Microeconomics (PhD/MSc), Applied Data Analytics (BSc), Effective programming practices for economists (PhD, MSc), and Public Finance and Social Policy (BSc). He has developed educational software to improve research reproducibility and emphasizes computational techniques alongside economic theory in his teaching.

His research methodology heavily utilizes modern computing infrastructure, and he has created software tools to help researchers maintain reproducibility of results, addressing what he identifies as a significant challenge in contemporary economic research.