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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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Thursday, 28 August 2014
Mills, M. et al. (2014) “Future fertility in low fertility countries”, World Population and Human Capital in the Twenty-First Century [Preprint].
Friday, 01 August 2014
BLOCK, P. and GRUND, T. (2014) “Multidimensional homophily in friendship networks*”, Network Science, 2(2), pp. 189–212.
Friday, 01 August 2014
Dowd, J. and Hamoudi, A. (2014) “Is life expectancy really falling for groups of low socio-economic status? Lagged selection bias and artefactual trends in mortality.”, International Journal of Epidemiology, 43(4), pp. 983–988.
Friday, 01 August 2014
Cousminer, D. et al. (2014) “Genome-wide association study of sexual maturation in males and females highlights a role for body mass and menarche loci in male puberty.”, Human molecular genetics, 23(16), pp. 4452–4464.
Friday, 01 August 2014
Ng, M. et al. (2014) “Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in African Americans provides insights into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes.”, PLoS genetics, 10(8), p. e1004517.
Friday, 01 August 2014
LIBERMAN, A., KIRK, D. and KIM, K. (2014) “LABELING EFFECTS OF FIRST JUVENILE ARRESTS: SECONDARY DEVIANCE AND SECONDARY SANCTIONING”, Criminology, 52(3), pp. 345–370.
Thursday, 31 July 2014
Lim, E. et al. (2014) “Distribution and medical impact of loss-of-function variants in the Finnish founder population”, PLoS Genetics, 10(7), p. ARTN e1004494.
Thursday, 31 July 2014
Hoggart, C. et al. (2014) “Novel approach identifies SNPs in SLC2A10 and KCNK9 with evidence for parent-of-origin effect on body mass index”, PLoS Genetics, 10(7), p. ARTN e1004508.
Tuesday, 15 July 2014
Simanek, A. et al. (2014) “Reply to Mendy”, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 210(2), pp. 333–334.
Thursday, 12 June 2014
Mills, M. et al. (2014) “Gender equality in the workforce Reconciling work, private and family life in Europe”, RAND Working Paper. RAND Corporation.
Tuesday, 10 June 2014
Dowd, J. et al. (2014) “Race/ethnic and socioeconomic differences in stress and immune function in The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health”, Social Science and Medicine, 115, pp. 49–55.
Sunday, 01 June 2014
Dowd, J. and Zajacova, A. (2014) “Long-Term Obesity and Cardiovascular, Inflammatory, and Metabolic Risk in U.S. Adults”, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 46(6), pp. 578–584.
Sunday, 01 June 2014
Dowd, J. and Zajacova, A. (2014) “Re: ‘Body Mass and Weight Change in Adults in Relation to Mortality Risk’”, American Journal of Epidemiology, 179(11), pp. 1402–1402.
Sunday, 01 June 2014
Delaneau, O. et al. (2014) “Integrating sequence and array data to create an improved 1000 Genomes Project haplotype reference panel.”, Nature communications, 5, p. 3934.
Thursday, 29 May 2014
Jonsson, J. (2014) “Ever-expanding university? Social and ethnic inequality in education”, in Mattei, P. (ed.) University Adaptation in Difficult Economic Times. Oxford University Press, pp. 157–170.
Monday, 12 May 2014
Stulp, G. et al. (2014) “Non-linear associations between stature and mate choice characteristics for American men and their spouses”, American Journal of Human Biology, 26(4), pp. 530–537.
Sunday, 04 May 2014
Kirk, D. and Hardy, M. (2014) “The Acute and Enduring Consequences of Exposure to Violence on Youth Mental Health and Aggression”, Justice Quarterly, 31(3), pp. 539–567.
Thursday, 01 May 2014
Rector, J. et al. (2014) “Consistent associations between measures of psychological stress and CMV antibody levels in a large occupational sample”, Brain Behavior and Immunity, 38, pp. 133–141.
Thursday, 01 May 2014
Wang, S. et al. (2014) “Simulation of Finnish population history, guided by empirical genetic data, to assess power of rare-variant tests in Finland.”, American journal of human genetics, 94(5), pp. 710–720.
Thursday, 01 May 2014
Winkler, T. et al. (2014) “Quality control and conduct of genome-wide association meta-analyses.”, Nature protocols, 9(5), pp. 1192–1212.