Maciej Danko

Maciej Danko is a Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany, affiliated with the Laboratory of Migration and Mobility. His work focuses on demographic data analysis, migration studies, and developing statistical methods for social science research.

Research interests span migration patterns, demographic data quality, and statistical modeling. Key areas include:

• Global migration of scholars and academic talent
• Statistical methods for migration data analysis
• Reporting behavior in health and demographic surveys
• Development of open-source software for demographic research

Publications primarily focus on migration dynamics, data quality assessment, and statistical methodology. Recent work analyzes subnational migration patterns, undercounting in migration statistics, and developing R packages for demographic analysis. Articles consistently address methodological challenges in demographic research.

Software development includes creating R packages like 'hopit' for hierarchical ordered probit models and tools for migration database management. Actively maintains open-source projects on GitHub supporting reproducible demographic research.