Maximilian Reichert

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PhD candidate at Erasmus University of Rotterdam (2023-27) and LIVES (2023-26), the Swiss Centre of Expertise in Life Course Research. I am interested in looking at the interactions of social policy and the life course in a comparative perspective using individual level data.

I am fortunate to be supervised by Tom Emery and Alzbeta Bartova and part of the team working on the ERC Childcare Strategies.

I completed the MPPSC at the University of Tübingen in 2023 and have yet to write my thesis for the MA Philosophy & Economics at the University of Vienna.

Get in touch:

• reichert [at] essb.eur.nl
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Current projects

1. In my main project, I am looking to tease out between and within country differences in how leave policy and childcare usage structure parental employment in the period around childbirth. This has me grappling with the EU-SILC and experimenting with Sequence Analysis.
2. On the side, I am experimenting with training LLMS on survey data to predict life outcomes.

Papers

Code available upon request

• Maximilian Reichert, Tom Emery, and Alzbeta Bartova. ‘The Critical Juncture of Childbirth: Turbulence in the Employment Trajectories of Mothers in Europe’. OSF, 17 December 2024. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/y4f3j.
  • Summary published in German on the DIFIS sozialpolitikblog and English on Social Policy Worldwide
• Boockmann, Bernhard, Heidrun Braun, Maximilian Reichert, and Hannah Tonn. ‘Akteure Und Konstellationen Für Einen Erfolgreichen Bürokratieabbau. Eine Analyse Anhand Der Entlastungsvorschläge Des Normenkontrollrates Baden-Württemberg (Online First)’. Dms – Der Moderne Staat – Zeitschrift Für Public Policy, Recht Und Management 17, no. 1–2024 (21 March 2024): 1–23. https://doi.org/10.3224/dms.vXiX.340560.

Presentations

• March 2025: Gender Inequalities, Fertility, and the Future of Family Demography: Intersectionality in an Era of Family Complexity (MPIDR in Rostock)
• March 2025: 10th ICWF Conference ( Bielefeld University)
• November 2024: FIS-Forum and Social Policy Biennale
• November 2024: LIVES & nccr — on the move International Conference (University of Lausanne)
• October 2024: Sequence Analysis Association Webinar Series
• September 2024: SLLS at University of Essex
• August 2024: ESPANET (University of Tampere)
• April 2024: Training workshop on Work-care policies, gender and social inequalities (COST Action Sustainability@Leave & University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law

Research visits

• March to May 2025: University of Geneva, hosted by Matthias Studer and funded by a LIVES visitor grant (3000 CHF)