Martin Biewen

Prof. Dr. Martin Biewen is a Full Professor of Statistics, Econometrics and Quantitative Methods at the University of Tübingen's Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences. Since 2023, he serves as Scientific Director of the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IAW Tübingen) and is a member of the Cluster of Excellence - Machine Learning for Science. His research spans income distribution, labor economics, education economics, and microeconometrics, with recent work applying machine learning to inequality analysis.

• PhD, University of Heidelberg (2000)
• Habilitation, University of Mannheim (2005)

His methodological innovations include bootstrap inference for inequality measurement and Stata implementations of decomposition techniques. He has served on multiple advisory boards including the German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and the German Economic Association's standing committees. Current grants include DFG Priority Programme 1764 and leadership roles in the LEAD Graduate School. Articles demonstrate expertise in minimum wage impacts, wealth inequality, and gender gaps in economic literacy. He has developed statistical software packages for Stata and R used in inequality analysis across 20+ journals.