Subscribe to our "Population in Perspective" Substack Here!

Subscribe

Featured publications

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.

All publications

Doohan, P. et al. (no date) “Lassa fever outbreaks, mathematical models, and disease parameters: a systematic review and meta-analysis”, medRxiv.
McCabe, R. et al. (no date) “Epidemiological characteristics and vaccination impact scenario modelling of concurrent Clade I mpox outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burundi”, medRxiv.
Rawson, T., Dawkins, M. and Bonsall, M. (no date) “A mathematical model of Campylobacter dynamics within a broiler flock”, bioRxiv.
Rawson, T. et al. (no date) “Can good broiler flock welfare prevent colonization by Campylobacter?”, bioRxiv.
Rawson, T. et al. (no date) “Mechanisms of biodiversity between Campylobacter sequence types in a flock of broiler-breeder chickens”, bioRxiv.
Rawson, T. et al. (no date) “The impact of health inequity on regional variation of COVID-19 transmission in England”, medRxiv.
Akimova, E. (no date) “Advances and current methodological problems in understanding depression: a sociogenomic approach.”
Aburto, J. et al. (no date) “Estimating the burden of COVID-19 on mortality, life expectancy and lifespan inequality in England and Wales: A population-level study.”
Scheiring, G. et al. (no date) “Deindustrialization and the Postsocialist Mortality Crisis”, SocArXiv.
Clarke, P. et al. (no date) “Voting Patterns, Mortality, and Health Inequalities in England”, medRxiv.
Andriano, L., Behrman, J. and MONDEN, C. (no date) “Mapping Husbands’ Dominance in Wives’ Health Decision-Making: A Diffusion Perspective in Sub-Saharan Africa”, Demography [Preprint].
MONDEN, C., PRAEG, P. and Potente, C. (no date) “Does Children’s Education Improve Parental Health and Longevity? Causal Evidence from Great Britain”, Journal of Health and Social Behavior [Preprint].
Breen, C. et al. (no date) “Mapping subnational gender gaps in internet and mobile adoption using social media data”, SocArXiv.