Statistics, Econometrics and Quantitative Methods

Prof. Dr. Martin Biewen

Contact

Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences
Statistics, Econometrics and Quantitative Methods

Mohlstr. 36
D-72074 Tübingen

Email: martin.biewenspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de

Office Hours

Please make an appointment by email

How to find us

Mohlstr. 36, Directions


Experience

since 2023
Scientific Director

Institute for Applied Economic Research (IAW Tübingen)

since 2009
Full Professor of Statistics, Econometrics and Quantitative Methods (W3)

University of Tübingen

2006-2009
Full Professor of Statistics (W3)

University of Mainz

2005-2006
Temporary Professor of Statistics and Econometrics (W3)

University of Frankfurt

2004-2005
Assistant Professor (C1)

University of Frankfurt

2002-2004
Assistant Professor (DFG-Scholarship)

University of Mannheim

2001-2002
Assistant Professor (DFG-Scholarship)

University of Heidelberg

2000-2001
Senior Research Officer

Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex

1996-2000
University Assistant

University of Heidelberg

1994-1996
Student Research Assistant

University of Bonn

Education

2002 - 2005 Habilitation (Economics and Econometrics)
University of Mannheim
1996 - 2000 Dr. rer. pol. (Economics)
University of Heidelberg
1993 - 1996 Diplom-Volkswirt (Economics)
University of Bonn
1991 - 1993 Vordiplom Ökonomie (Economics)
University of Bochum

Professional activities

Since 2023 Scientific Director
Institute for Applied Economic Research (IAW Tübingen)
Since 2022 Member of Cluster of Excellence - Machine Learning for Science
German Excellence Initiative, University of Tübingen
Since 2020

Advisory Board/Wissenschaftlicher Beirat

Studie Berufliche Orientierung: Berufs- und Studienwahl (BerO)

Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg

Since 2018 Research Fellow
Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI), Essen
Since 2016 EDI representative (Equity, Diversity, Inclusion)
Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Tübingen
Since 2014

Advisory Board/Wissenschaftliches Gutachtergremium
Armuts- und Reichtumsberichterstattung
Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales

Since 2014 Principal Investigator
DFG Priority Programme 1764 `The German Labour Market in a Globalised World
- Challenges through Trade, Technology, and Demographics'
2011 - 2013 Head of the School of Business and Economics
Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Tübingen
Since 2012 Principal Investigator and Founding Member
Graduate School `Learning, Educational Achievement, and Life Course Development (LEAD)'
German Excellence Initiative, University of Tübingen
Since 2012 Advisory Board/Wissenschaftlicher Beirat
Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (IAW), Tübingen
2010 - 2020 Advisory Board/Wissenschaftlicher Beirat
Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg
Since 2008

Standing Field Committee Econometrics, German Economic Association

Ökonometrischer Ausschuß des Vereins für Socialpolitik

Since 2006

Standing Field Committee Social Policy, German Economic Association

Sozialpolitischer Ausschuß des Vereins für Socialpolitik

2006 - 2013 Research Professor
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Since 2001 Research Fellow
Institut zur Erforschung der Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA), Bonn
2000 - 2008 Living Standards, Inequality and Taxation (LivinTaX)
Training and Mobility of Researchers Network, European Commission

Editorial boards

Since 2012 Associate Editor, Empirical Economics
Since 2010 Associate Editor, Journal for Labor Market Research
Since 2018

Associate Editor, Econometrics

Referee

American Economic Review, Annals of Applied Statistics, Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, Acta Sociologica, Asian Development Review, B.E. Journals of Economic Analysis & Policy, CESifo Economic Studies, Communications in Statistics, Comparative Economic Studies, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Econometrics, Economic Journal, Economica, Economics Letters, Economic Modelling, Economics of Education Review, Economics of Transition, Empirical Economics, Entropy, European Economic Review, European Journal of Higher Education, European Sociological Review, Forum for Health Economics & Policy, German Economic Review, Health Economics, Industrial Relations, International Economic Review, International Journal of Manpower, International Review of Applied Economics, International Review of Economics and Finance, International Review of Social Research, International Tax and Public Finance, Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, Journal for Educational Measurement, Journal for Labour Market Research, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, Journal of Business Economics/Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, Journal of Economic Development and Cultural Change, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Economic Inequality, Journal of European Social Policy, Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Journal of the German Statistical Association, Journal of Income Distribution, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Official Statistics, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, LABOUR, Labour Economics, Mathematics, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Oxford Economic Papers, Pakistan Journal of Statistics, PLOS ONE, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics of the Household, Review of Income and Wealth, Review for Regional Studies, Social Forces, Societies, Sociological Methods & Research, Southern Economic Journal, Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft

 

Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), European Society for Population Economics, Fond National de la Recherche Luxembourg, Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, Integrated Research Infrastructure in the Socio-Economic Sciences (IRISS, CEPS-INSTEAD), Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik, National Science Center Poland, National Science Foundation, New Opportunities for Research Funding Agency Co-operation in Europe (NORFACE), Council for Fundamental Scientific Education Research (PROO) Netherlands, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

Research interests

Income Distribution

Labor Economics

Education Economics
LEAD Graduate School & Research Network

Machine Learning
Cluster of Excellence - Machine Learning for Science

Microeconometrics


Publications in peer-reviewed journals

Biewen, M., S. Glaisner, R. Kleimann (2024): The shape of the wealth distribution and differences in wealth inequality across euro area countries, forthcoming Journal of Economic Inequality

Biewen, M., M. Sturm (2022): Why a labour market boom does not necessarily bring down inequality: Putting together Germany's inequality puzzle, Fiscal Studies, Vol. 43, 121-149

Biewen, M., J. Schwerter (2022): Does more math and natural sciences in high school increase the share of female STEM workers? Evidence from a curriculum reform, Applied Economics, Vol. 54, 1889-1911

Biewen, M., P. Erhardt (2021): arhomme: A Stata implementation of the Arellano/Bonhomme (2017) estimator for quantile regression with selection correction, Stata Journal, Vol. 21, pp. 602-625.

Biewen, M., P. Kugler (2021): Two-stage least squares random forests with an application to Angrist and Evans (1998), Economics Letters, Vol. 204, 109893, longer version here

Savage, C., A. Ayaita, N. Hübner, M. Biewen (2021): Who Chooses Teacher Education and Why? Evidence from Germany. Educational Researcher, press release here, Spiegel Online press coverage here

Savage, C., Hübner, N., Biewen, M., Nagengast, B., & Polikoff, M. S. (2021): Social studies textbook effects: Evidence from Texas. AERA Open, Vol. 7, pp 1-9

Biewen, M., B. Fitzenberger, M. Seckler (2020): Counterfactual quantile decompositions with selection correction taking into account Huber/Melly (2015):  An application to the German gender wage gap, Labour Economics, Vol. 66, 101927

Biewen, M., M. Thiele (2020): Early tracking, academic vs. vocational training, and the value of `second-chance' options, Labour Economics, Vol. 66, 101900

Biewen, M., M. Seckler (2019): Unions, Internationalization, Tasks, Firms, and Worker Characteristics: A Detailed Decomposition Analysis of Rising Wage Inequality in Germany, Journal of Economic Inequality, Vol. 17, pp. 461-498

Biewen, M., M. Ungerer, M. Löffler (2019): Why did income inequality in Germany not increase further after 2005?, German Economic Review, Vol. 20, pp. 471-504.

Biewen, M., D. Plötze (2019): The role of hours changes for the increase in German earnings inequality, Journal of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 239, pp. 1-28.

Biewen, M., B. Fitzenberger, J. DeLazzer (2018): The Role of Employment Interruptions and Part-time Work for the Rise in Wage Inequality, IZA Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 7, pp. 1-34.

Biewen, M., E. Flachaire (2018): Editorial Econometrics and Income Inequality, Econometrics, Vol. 6, doi:10.3390/econometrics6040042

Biewen, M., S. Seifert (2018): Potential Parenthood and Career Progression of Men and Women: A Simultaneous Hazards Approach, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Vol. 18, pp. 1-22.

Biewen, M., R. Happ, S. Schmidt, O. Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia (2018): Knowledge growth, academic beliefs and motivation of students in business and economics - A longitudinal German case study, Higher Education Studies, Vol. 8, pp. 9-28.

Biewen, M., A. Juhasz (2017): Direct Estimation of Equivalence Scales and More Evidence on Independence of Base, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 79, pp. 875-905.

Biewen, M., Tapalaga, M. (2017): Life-cycle educational choices in a system with early tracking and `second chance' options, Economics of Education Review, Vol. 56, pp. 80-94, previous version with further results here.

Biewen, M. (2014): Poverty Persistence and Poverty Dynamics, IZA World of Labor, Vol. 103, pp. 1-10.

Biewen, M., B. Fitzenberger, A. Osikominu und M. Waller (2014): The Effectiveness of Public Sponsored Training Revisited: The Importance of Data and Methodological Choices, Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 32, pp. 837-897.

Biewen, M. (2014): A General Decomposition Formula with Interaction Effects, Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 21, pp. 636-642. Longer version here.

Biewen, M., C. Weiser (2014): An Empirical Test of Marginal Productivity Theory, Applied Economics, Vol. 46, pp. 996-1020.

Biewen, M., A. Juhasz (2012): Understanding Rising Inequality in Germany, 1999/2000 - 2005/06, Review of Income and Wealth, Vol. 58, pp. 62-647.

Biewen, M., A. Juhasz (2011): Can Employment Changes Explain Rising Inequality in Germany?, Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, Vol. 131, pp. 349-357.

Biewen, M., S. Steffes (2010): Unemployment persistence: Is there evidence for stigma effects?, Economics Letters, Vol. 106, pp. 188-190.

Biewen, M. (2009): Measuring state dependence in individual poverty histories when there is feedback to employment status and household composition, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 24, pp. 1095–1116.

Biewen, M., B. Fitzenberger, A. Osikominu, R. Völter, M. Waller (2006): Beschäftigungseffekte ausgewählter Maßnahmen der beruflichen Weiterbildung in Deutschland: Eine Bestandsaufnahme, Journal for Labour Market Research, Vol. 39, pp. 365–390.

Biewen, M., S.P. Jenkins (2006): Estimation of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson Inequality Indices from Complex Survey Data, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 68, pp. 371–383. For Stata survey estimation command, type in Stata "ssc install svygei_svyatk, replace".

Biewen, M. (2006): Who are the Chronic Poor? An Econometric Analysis of Chronic Poverty in Germany, Research on Economic Inequality, Vol. 13, pp. 31–62.

Biewen, M. (2005): The Covariance Structure of East and West German Incomes and its Implications for the Persistence of Poverty and Inequality, German Economic Review, Vol. 6, pp. 445–469.

Biewen, M., R. Wilke (2005): Unemployment duration and the length of entitlement periods for unemployment benefits: do the IAB employment subsample and the German Socio-Economic Panel yield the same results?, Journal of the German Statistical Society, Vol. 88, pp. 209–236.

Biewen, M., S.P. Jenkins (2005): A Framework for the Decomposition of Poverty Differences with an Application to Poverty Differences between Countries, Empirical Economics, Vol. 30, pp. 331–358

Biewen, M. (2002): Bootstrap inference for inequality, mobility and poverty measurement, Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 108, pp. 317–342. Some Stata code here.

Biewen, M. (2002): Measuring Inequality in the Presence of Intra-Household Correlation, Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 9, pp. 1003–1006.

Biewen, M. (2001): Item-Nonresponse and Inequality Measurement: Evidence from the German Earnings Distribution, Journal of the German Statistical Society, Vol. 85, pp. 409–425.

Biewen, M. (2001): Unemployment, Retirement, Female Labor Market Participation and Income Inequality: A Decomposition Analysis for Germany, Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, Vol. 121, pp. 59–82.

Biewen, M. (2001): Measuring the Effects of Socio-Economic Variables on the Income Distribution: An Application to the East German Transition Process, Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 83, pp. 185–190.

Biewen, M. (2000): Income inequality in Germany during the 1980s and 1990s, Review of Income and Wealth, Vol. 46, pp. 1–20.

Biewen, M. (1999): Inequality trends in the German income distribution, Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung, Vol. 68, pp. 275–283.

Scientific reports

Biewen, M. R. Kleimann, A. Peichl et al. (2021): Analyse der Verteilung von Einkommen und Vermögen in Deutschland, Gutachten für das Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales für den 6. Armuts- und Reichtumsbericht der Bundesregierung, press release here

Boockmann, B., R. Pollak, H. Bonin, L. Bellani, M. Biewen (2021): Aktuelle und vergangene Entwicklungen Sozialer Mobilität im Lichte institutioneller und struktureller Rahmenbedingungen, Gutachten für das Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales für den 6. Armuts- und Reichtumsbericht der Bundesregierung

Biewen, M. B. Boockmann, A. Peichl et al. (2016): Analyse der Verteilung von Einkommen und Vermögen in Deutschland, Gutachten für das Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales für den 5. Armuts- und Reichtumsbericht der Bundesregierung

Boockmann, B., Biewen, M., S. Hillmert et al. (2016): Aktuelle Entwicklungen der sozialen Mobilität und der Dynamik von Armutsrisiken in Deutschland, Gutachten für das Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales für den 5. Armuts- und Reichtumsbericht der Bundesregierung

Arndt, C., Biewen, M., B. Boockmann, M. Rosenmann et al. (2013): Aktualisierung der Berichterstattung über die Verteilung von Einkommen und Vermögen in Deutschland für den 4. Armuts- und Reichtumsbericht der Bundesregierung, Gutachten für das Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales

Bender, S., B. Fitzenberger, M. Lechner, M. Biewen, R. Miquel, A. Osikominu, M. Waller, C. Wunsch (2005): Die Beschäftigungswirkung der FbW-Maßnahmen 2000 – 2002 auf individueller Ebene: Eine Evaluation auf Basis der prozessproduzierten Daten des IAB, Forschungsprojekt 6-531.1A, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung der Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Nürnberg

Publications in books, edited volumes etc.

Biewen, M. (2013): Official PowerPoint slides for Jeffrey M. Wooldridge: Introductory Econometrics, A Modern Approach, 5th edition, Cengage Learning, South-Western

Biewen, M. (2011): Koreferat zu "Mindestlöhne, Lohnsubventionen und Einkommenssicherung im Wohlfahrtsstaat, in: Umverteilung und Soziale Gerechtigkeit, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Seminar Ottobeuren, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen

Biewen, M. (2008): State dependence and feedback effects in individual poverty histories, Proceedings of the 9th Iranian Statistical Conference, Department of Statistics, University of Isfahan

Biewen, M. (2008): Arbeitsmarktpolitik auf dem Prüfstand, Natur & Geist, Forschungsmagazin der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 24. Jahrgang, S. 44 – 48

Biewen, M. (2005): Cross-sectional vs. longitudinal views: econometric models of low income and low income dynamics in Germany, Habilitations­schrift, Universität Mannheim

Biewen, M. und B. Fitzenberger (2004): Neuausrichtung der Förderung beruflicher Weiterbildung, in: Hagen, T. und A. Spermann (Hrsg.): Hartz-Gesetze – Methodische Ansätze zu einer Evaluierung, ZEW Wirtschaftsanalysen, Bd. 74, Baden-Baden, pp. 190 – 202

Biewen, M. (2003): Handbook on Inequality Measurement (Book Review), Journal of Deve­lopment Economics, Vol. 70, pp. 543 – 548

Biewen, M. und S.P. Jenkins (2001): Who is most likely to be poor in Germany, in: Becker I., Ott N., und Rolf-Engel, G. (Hrsg.): Soziale Sicherung in einer dynamischen Gesellschaft, Frankfurt a. M., pp. 440 – 462

Biewen, M. (2000): Contributions to the measurement of German income inequality, Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg

Stata/R programs

If you use one of the following programs, please cite the corresponding paper. Disclaimer: I am not responsible for any wrong results produced by these programs.

Biewen/Kugler (2021)

R implementation of two-stage least squares random forests tsls_forest_source.zip. More explanations on github.

Biewen/Erhardt (2020)

arhomme: A Stata implementation of the Arellano/Bonhomme (2017) estimator for quantile regression with selection correction. In order to install the ado, please type in Stata: search arhomme. This version requires Stata 16 or higher. If you need a version that works for Stata 15, install manually arhomme for stata 15.zip.

Presentation at Swiss Stata Conference 2020 [biewen_erhardt.ppt]

Biewen/Jenkins (2006)

Complex survey variance estimates for Generalized Entropy and Atkinson inequality indices. In order to install these ado-files, type in Stata: search svygei_svyatk

Presentation at German Stata User Group Meeting 2006 [surv.ppt]

Biewen (2002)

Bootstrap for some Generalized Entropy measures [ge_entr.ado]

Bootstrap for differences of Generalized Entropy measures [diff_ge.ado]

Bootstrap for inequality decomposition by subgroup [sub_dec.ado]

Bootstrap for Prais mobility index [mob.ado]

Bootstrap for differences of Prais mobility index [diff_m.ado]

Examples [examples.txt]