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Two New Studies Deepen Our Understanding of the Link between Motherhood and Labour Market Outcomes
18 Feb 2026

Two New Studies Deepen Our Understanding of the Link between Motherhood and Labour Market Outcomes

Two recent publications by Sander Wagner (Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science) provide new evidence on how becoming a mother affects women’s careers, and why these effects matter for gender inequality more broadly. Both studies draw on large-scale administrative labour market data from France and Germany that were harmonised by the authoring team under a DFG–ANR research grant, with the aim of making cross-national research using administrative records more feasible.
New Study Finds Gender Equality Linked to Modest Fertility Rebound – But Not Enough to Reverse Long-Term Decline
20 Nov 2025

New Study Finds Gender Equality Linked to Modest Fertility Rebound – But Not Enough to Reverse Long-Term Decline

A new study from the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science reassesses whether rising gender equality can help reverse falling birth rates, a long-standing theory in demography. The research, published in Demographic Research, revisits a prominent 2019 study by Martin Kolk and offers fresh evidence that improvements in gender equality can lead to a modest fertility recovery, but only under specific conditions and not enough to counter broader declines.

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Tuesday, 13 October 2020
Verkroost, F. et al. (2020) “Tracking global gender gaps in information technology using online data”, Digital Skills Insights, 2020, pp. 81–93.
Tuesday, 13 October 2020
Andriano, L. and Behrman, J. (2020) “The effects of growing-season drought on young women’s life course transitions in a sub-Saharan context”, Population Studies, 74(3), pp. 331–350.
Thursday, 01 October 2020
Urbina, D. (2020) “In the Hands of Women: Conditional Cash Transfers and Household Dynamics”, Journal of Marriage and Family, 82(5), pp. 1571–1586.
Thursday, 01 October 2020
Alwan, N. et al. (2020) “Scientific consensus on the COVID-19 pandemic: we need to act now”, The Lancet, 396(10260), pp. e71 - e72.
Thursday, 01 October 2020
Frey, A. (2020) “‘Cologne Changed Everything’—The Effect of Threatening Events on the Frequency and Distribution of Intergroup Conflict in Germany”, European Sociological Review, 36(5), pp. 684–699.
Thursday, 01 October 2020
Wagner, S., Boertien, D. and Gørtz, M. (2020) “The Wealth of Parents: Trends Over Time in Assortative Mating Based on Parental Wealth”, Demography, 57(5), pp. 1809–1831.
Thursday, 01 October 2020
Vekaria, B. et al. (2020) “Hospital Length of Stay For COVID-19 Patients: Data-Driven Methods for Forward Planning”, Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
Floridi, G., Carrino, L. and Glaser, K. (2020) “Socioeconomic inequalities in home-care use across regional long-term care systems in Europe”, Journals of Gerontology Series B, 76(1), pp. 121–132.
Tuesday, 29 September 2020
Leasure, D. et al. (2020) “National population mapping from sparse survey data: A hierarchical Bayesian modeling framework to account for uncertainty”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(39), pp. 24173–24179.
Tuesday, 29 September 2020
Dowd, J. et al. (2020) “Dangerous to claim ‘no clear association’ between intergenerational relationships and COVID-19”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(42), pp. 25975–25976.
Monday, 28 September 2020
Cuellar-Partida, G. et al. (2020) “Genome-wide association study identifies 48 common genetic variants associated with handedness”, Nature Human Behaviour, 5(1), pp. 59–70.
Friday, 25 September 2020
Kashyap, R. and Behrman, J. (2020) “Gender discrimination and excess female under-five mortality in India: a new perspective using mixed-sex twins”, Demography, 57, pp. 2143–2167.
Thursday, 24 September 2020
Engzell, P. and Berger, T. (2020) “Trends and disparities in subjective upward mobility since 1940”, Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, 6.
Wednesday, 23 September 2020
Straub, V., Tsvetkova, M. and Yasseri, T. (2020) “The cost of coordination can exceed the benefit of collaboration in performing complex tasks”, arXiv.
Friday, 11 September 2020
Yaghootkar, H. et al. (2020) “Genetic studies of leptin concentrations implicate leptin in the regulation of early adiposity”, Diabetes, 69(12), pp. 2806–2818.
Friday, 11 September 2020
Brazil, N. and Kirk, D. (2020) “Ridehailing and alcohol-involved traffic fatalities in the United States: the average and heterogeneous association of uber”, PLoS One, 15(9).
Tuesday, 08 September 2020
Kashyap, R. et al. (2020) “Monitoring global digital gender inequality using the online populations of Facebook and Google”, Demographic Research, 43, pp. 779–816.
Thursday, 03 September 2020
Noppert, G. et al. (2020) “Life course socioeconomic disadvantage and the aging immune system: findings from the health and retirement study”, The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 76(6), pp. 1195–1205.
Wednesday, 02 September 2020
Spallek, M. et al. (2020) “The value of administrative data for longitudinal social research: a case study investigating income support receipt and relationship separation in Australia”, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 23(5), pp. 467–481.
Tuesday, 01 September 2020
Verweij, R. et al. (2020) “Three facets of planning and postponement of parenthood in the Netherlands”, Demographic Research, 43, pp. 659–672.