Renske Keizer

Renske Keizer is a full professor at the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her work bridges sociology, pedagogical sciences, demography, and developmental psychology to examine how families influence social inequalities in child development, educational achievement, and well-being.

• Lead researcher in the DICE international network on cross-national educational inequality
• Co-founder in the Nonmarital Childbearing Network (www.nonmarital.org) studying family structure changes

Her research employs life course approaches to analyze:

• Impacts of prenatal economic stress on child behavior
• Maternal educational mobility and offspring outcomes
• Parental unemployment and intergenerational education transmission
• Dynamics of coercive parenting during crises like COVID-19

Scientific Recognition:

• Joannes Juda Groen Prize (2020) for interdisciplinary research
• ERC Starting Grant and NWO VENI/VIDI awards
• Selected among 25 most talented young Dutch/Flemish scholars (2016)