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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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Sunday, 23 November 2008
Changing Relationships (2008). Taylor & Francis.
Wednesday, 01 October 2008
Ermisch, J. (2008) “Child support and non-resident fathers’ contact with their children”, Journal of Population Economics, 21(4), pp. 827–853.
Wednesday, 01 October 2008
Dowd, J. and Aiello, A. (2008) “Did national folic acid fortification reduce socioeconomic and racial disparities in folate status in the US?”, International Journal of Epidemiology, 37(5), pp. 1059–1066.
Wednesday, 01 October 2008
Barton, A. et al. (2008) “Rheumatoid arthritis susceptibility loci at chromosomes 10p15, 12q13 and 22q13.”, Nature genetics, 40(10), pp. 1156–1159.
Tuesday, 30 September 2008
Aarts, O. et al. (2008) “Does belonging accompany believing? Correlations and trends in Western Europe and North America between 1981 and 2000”, Review of Religious Research, 50(1), pp. 16–34.
Friday, 01 August 2008
Barton, A. et al. (2008) “Re-evaluation of putative rheumatoid arthritis susceptibility genes in the post-genome wide association study era and hypothesis of a key pathway underlying susceptibility.”, Human molecular genetics, 17(15), pp. 2274–2279.
Tuesday, 01 July 2008
Mills, M. et al. (2008) “Converging Divergences?”, International Sociology, 23(4), pp. 561–595.
Tuesday, 01 July 2008
Ermisch, J. (2008) “Origins of Social Immobility and Inequality: Parenting and Early Child Development”, National Institute Economic Review, 205(1), pp. 62–71.
Sunday, 01 June 2008
Loos, R. et al. (2008) “Common variants near MC4R are associated with fat mass, weight and risk of obesity.”, Nature genetics, 40(6), pp. 768–775.
Thursday, 01 May 2008
Weedon, M. et al. (2008) “Genome-wide association analysis identifies 20 loci that influence adult height.”, Nature genetics, 40(5), pp. 575–583.
Sunday, 27 April 2008
Tremelling, M. et al. (2008) “Genetic determinants of ulcerative colitis include the ECM1 locus and five loci implicated in Crohn’s disease”, Nature Genetics, 40(6), pp. 710–712.
Tuesday, 25 March 2008
Ermisch, J. (2008) “An economic history of bastardy in England and Wales”, in Quantitative Economic History: The Good of Counting, pp. 8–33.
Saturday, 01 March 2008
Ermisch, J. and Pronzato, C. (2008) “Intra‐Household Allocation of Resources: Inferences from Non‐resident Fathers’ Child Support Payments”, in The Economic Journal. Oxford University Press (OUP), pp. 347–362.
Saturday, 01 March 2008
van Poppel, F., Monden, C. and Mandemakers, K. (2008) “Marriage Timing over the Generations.”, in Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.), pp. 7–22.
Friday, 29 February 2008
Mills, M. et al. (2008) “Gender equity and fertility intentions in Italy and the Netherlands”, Demographic Research, 18, pp. 1–26.
Friday, 01 February 2008
Kirk, D. (2008) “The neighborhood context of racial and ethnic disparities in arrest”, Demography, 45(1), pp. 55–77.
Wednesday, 16 January 2008
Nicoletti, C. and Ermisch, J. (2007) “Intergenerational Earnings Mobility: Changes across Cohorts in Britain”, The B E Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 7(2).
Tuesday, 01 January 2008
Dowd, J. et al. (2008) “Socioeconomic Gradients in Immune Response to Latent Infection”, American Journal of Epidemiology, 167(1), pp. 112–120.
Tuesday, 01 January 2008
Guan, W. et al. (2008) “Meta-analysis of 23 type 2 diabetes linkage studies from the International Type 2 Diabetes Linkage Analysis Consortium.”, Human heredity, 66(1), pp. 35–49.
Tuesday, 01 January 2008
Hendry, D. and Reade, J. (2008) “Elusive return predictability: Discussion”, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FORECASTING, 24(1), pp. 22–28.