Maximilian Reichert
Quantitative sociologist and family demographer studying how family and institutional contexts combine and develop over time to produce inequalities in educational and socio-demographic trajectories. I study education both as a predictor of inequalities in the early family life course and as an outcome of childhood circumstances, and I work on adapting longitudinal, person-centred methods to population-scale register data.
PhD candidate at Erasmus University Rotterdam (2023–27) and LIVES, the Swiss Centre of Expertise in Life Course Research (2023–26). I am supervised by Tom Emery and Alzbeta Bartova, and part of the team working on the ERC Childcare Strategies project.
I completed the MPPSC at the University of Tübingen in 2023, and am on leave from the MA Philosophy & Economics at the University of Vienna.
Get in touch:
- reichert [at] essb.eur.nl
Peer-reviewed publications
- Maximilian Reichert. ‘Representation Learning and Clustering for Multi-Domain Sequence Analysis: An Application to Dutch Register Data’. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Social Computing (ICSC), Nuffield College, University of Oxford, 2026. Best Paper Award. https://openreview.net/forum?id=MRQe1B4xwn
- Maximilian Reichert, Tom Emery, and Alzbeta Bartova. ‘The Critical Juncture of Childbirth: Periodic Turbulence in the Employment Trajectories of Mothers in Europe’. European Journal of Population, published online 21 August 2026. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10680-026-09782-w
- 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’. dms – Der Moderne Staat – Zeitschrift Für Public Policy, Recht Und Management 17, no. 1 (2024): 1–23. https://doi.org/10.3224/dms.vXiX.340560
Working papers and work in progress
- Maximilian Reichert, Alzbeta Bartova, and Tom Emery. ‘Social Inequalities in the Timing of Childcare Use in Europe’. Preprint, SocArXiv, 20 January 2026. Under review. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/ju75w_v1/
- Maximilian Reichert, Julia Leesch, and Linda Vecgaile. ‘Diverging Destinies? Maternal Age at Birth, Inequalities in Childhood Ecologies, and Child Outcomes’.
- Maximilian Reichert, Lili Vargha, and Flora Zhou. ‘Pre-Birth Income Inequalities and the Evolution of Maternal Absolute and Relative Income Trajectories after Childbirth: An Application of Group-Based Multi-Trajectory Models to Dutch Register Data’.
- Maximilian Reichert and Maaike Hornstra. ‘A Dynamic View of Family Complexity: The Role of Timing, Duration, and Ordering for Children’s Educational Outcomes’. Equal contribution; work in progress. https://odissei-data.nl/project/a-dynamic-view-of-family-complexity-the-role-of-timingduration-and-ordering-for-childrens-educational-outcomes/
- Garcia, Javier Garcia, Sharayu Shejale, and Maximilian Reichert. ‘Cumulative Political Participation and Self-Rated Happiness’. Contribution to the pre-registered scientific mass collaboration The ‘Good Life’ Data Challenge, Project ID 58; work in progress.
Code available upon request
Funding
- ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant (7,500 EUR), November 2026–. Funding for accessing CBS Microdata; joint work with Maaike Hornstra. Project page
Research visits
- July 2026: Statistics Denmark, Copenhagen, for LENS-NL; hosted by Laust Hvas Mortensen (Rockwool Foundation) and Emilie Rune Hegelund
- March to June 2026: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock, hosted by Julia Leesch, Linda Vecgaile, and Nicole Hiekel
- October 2025 and January 2026: University of Vienna, hosted by Lili Vargha, Anna Karmann, and Nadia Steiber; funded by COST Action CA21150 on Parenting Leave Policies (around 2800 EUR)
- March to May 2025: University of Geneva, hosted by Matthias Studer; funded by a LIVES visitor grant (3000 CHF)
Presentations
- 2026: LIVES International Research Days, Lausanne (upcoming)
- June 2026: ICSC 2026, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
- June 2026: ECSR 2026, Dublin
- June 2026: EPC 2026, Bologna
- May 2026: PAA 2026, St. Louis
- 2026: Sequence Analysis Association pre-EPC workshop
- September 2025: ECSR 2025, Cologne
- August 2025: ESPANET 2025, Milan
- March 2025: Gender Inequalities, Fertility, and the Future of Family Demography, 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, 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
Teaching
- Teaching Assistant, ‘R for Quantitative Methods’ (BA level), Erasmus University Rotterdam, September 2024 – January 2025
- Bachelor thesis supervision, Erasmus University Rotterdam, February – July 2024