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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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Wednesday, 01 April 2009
Belot, M. and Ermisch, J. (2009) “Friendship ties and geographical mobility: evidence from Great Britain”, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society), 172(2), pp. 427–442.
Wednesday, 01 April 2009
Weil, D. and Wilde, J. (2009) “How Relevant Is Malthus for Economic Development Today?”, American Economic Review, 99(2), pp. 255–260.
Wednesday, 01 April 2009
Renström, F. et al. (2009) “Replication and extension of genome-wide association study results for obesity in 4923 adults from northern Sweden.”, Human molecular genetics, 18(8), pp. 1489–1496.
Sunday, 01 March 2009
Smits, J. and Monden, C. (2009) “Length of life inequality around the globe.”, Social science & medicine (1982), 68(6), pp. 1114–1123.
Sunday, 01 February 2009
Mills, M. (2009) “Globalization and Inequality”, European Sociological Review, 25(1), pp. 1–8.
Sunday, 01 February 2009
Buchholz, S. et al. (2009) “Life Courses in the Globalization Process: The Development of Social Inequalities in Modern Societies”, European Sociological Review, 25(1), pp. 53–71.
Sunday, 01 February 2009
Dowd, J., Zajacova, A. and Aiello, A. (2009) “Early origins of health disparities: Burden of infection, health, and socioeconomic status in U.S. children”, Social Science & Medicine, 68(4), pp. 699–707.
Sunday, 01 February 2009
Zajacova, A., Dowd, J. and Aiello, A. (2009) “Socioeconomic and Race/Ethnic Patterns in Persistent Infection Burden Among U.S. Adults”, The Journals of Gerontology Series A, 64A(2), pp. 272–279.
Sunday, 01 February 2009
Ermisch, J. (2009) “The rising share of nonmarital births: is it only compositional effects?”, Demography, 46(1), pp. 193–202.
Thursday, 01 January 2009
Mills, M. (2009) “Letter from the Editor”, International Sociology, 24(1), pp. 5–6.
Thursday, 01 January 2009
DOWD, J., AIELLO, A. and ALLEY, D. (2009) “Socioeconomic disparities in the seroprevalence of cytomegalovirus infection in the US population: NHANES III”, Epidemiology and Infection, 137(1), pp. 58–65.
Thursday, 01 January 2009
Jonsson, J. et al. (2009) “Microclass mobility: social reproduction in four countries.”, AJS; American journal of sociology, 114(4), pp. 977–1036.
Tuesday, 09 December 2008
Ermisch, J. (2008) “Adult child-parent relationships”, in Changing Relationships, pp. 127–145.
Tuesday, 09 December 2008
Ermisch, J. and Siedler, T. (2008) “Living apart together”, in Changing Relationships, pp. 29–43.
Tuesday, 09 December 2008
Ermisch, J. (2008) “Young child-parent relationships”, in Changing Relationships, pp. 111–126.
Monday, 01 December 2008
Ermisch, J. (2008) “The new dynamics of family formation and the explosion of childbearing outside marriage”, in Women and Employment: Changing Lives and New Challenges, pp. 133–155.
Monday, 01 December 2008
Dowd, J. and Zajacova, A. (2008) “Author’s response”, International Journal of Epidemiology, 37(6), pp. 1438–1439.
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.