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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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Monday, 01 January 2018
Jenkins, T. et al. (2018) “Distribution of the Endangered American Burying Beetle at the Northwestern Limit of its Range”, Insect Systematics and Diversity, 2(1), p. ixx011.
Monday, 01 January 2018
Kirk, D. (2018) “The effects of neighborhood context and residential mobility on criminal persistence and desistance”, in The Oxford Handbook of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, pp. 515–535.
Monday, 01 January 2018
Rampazzo, F. et al. (2018) “Mater certa est, pater numquam: What can facebook advertising data tell us about male fertility rates?”, 12th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2018, pp. 672–675.
Monday, 01 January 2018
Voss-Fels, K. et al. (2018) “VERNALIZATION1 Modulates Root System Architecture in Wheat and Barley”, Molecular Plant, 11(1), pp. 226–229.
Monday, 01 January 2018
Ermisch, J. et al. (2018) “Advantage in Comparative Perspective”, in Social Stratification Class Race and Gender in Sociological Perspective, pp. 501–505.
Monday, 01 January 2018
Ermisch, J. (2018) “Family Economics”, in New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Third Edition, pp. 4450–4455.
Friday, 22 December 2017
Turcot, V. et al. (2017) “Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity”, Nature Genetics, 50(1), pp. 26–41.
Friday, 15 December 2017
Kirk, D. et al. (2017) “The impact of residential change and housing stability on recidivism: pilot results from the Maryland Opportunities through Vouchers Experiment (MOVE)”, Journal of Experimental Criminology, 14(2), pp. 213–226.
Thursday, 14 December 2017
Aiello, A. et al. (2017) “Infectious diseases”, in The Routledge International Handbook of Psychosocial Epidemiology, pp. 281–300.
Thursday, 14 December 2017
Kivimäki, M. et al. (2017) “The Routledge International Handbook of Psychosocial Epidemiology”, in Kivimäki, M. et al. (eds.). Routledge.
Friday, 01 December 2017
Wenger, S. et al. (2017) “Viability analysis for multiple populations”, Biological Conservation, 216, pp. 69–77.
Thursday, 09 November 2017
Block, P., Heathcote, L. and Burnett Heyes, S. (2017) “Social interaction and pain: an arctic expedition”, Social Science and Medicine, 196, pp. 47–55.
Tuesday, 07 November 2017
Styrkarsdottir, U. et al. (2017) “Erratum: Large meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies five loci for lean body mass.”, Nature communications [Preprint], (1).
Wednesday, 01 November 2017
Gupta, A. and Spears, D. (2017) “Health externalities of India’s expansion of coal plants: Evidence from a national panel of 40,000 households”, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 86, pp. 262–276.
Wednesday, 01 November 2017
Pasolli, E. et al. (2017) “Accessible, curated metagenomic data through ExperimentHub”, Nature Methods, 14(11), pp. 1023–1024.
Sunday, 29 October 2017
Reeves, A. et al. (2017) “The decline and persistence of the old boy: Private schools and elite recruitment 1897 to 2016”, American Sociological Review, 82(6), pp. 1139–1166.
Wednesday, 04 October 2017
Kirk, D. and Wakefield, S. (2017) “Collateral consequences of punishment: a critical review and path forward”, Annual Review of Criminology, 1(*5*), pp. 171–194.
Sunday, 01 October 2017
Dauwalter, D. et al. (2017) “Satellite and Airborne Remote Sensing Applications for Freshwater Fisheries”, Fisheries, 42(10), pp. 526–537.
Sunday, 01 October 2017
Canudas-Romo, V. and Aburto, J. (2017) “Biodemography of Aging Determinants of Healthy Life Span and Longevity”, European Journal of Population, 33(4), pp. 611–613.
Sunday, 01 October 2017
AIELLO, A. et al. (2017) “The impact of pathogen burden on leukocyte telomere length in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis”, Epidemiology and Infection, 145(14), pp. 3076–3084.