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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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Friday, 28 April 2023
Karra, M. et al. (2023) Liberian Women Count: Evidence from a Macrosimulation of the Gender Dividend. World Bank.
Wednesday, 26 April 2023
Masters, R. et al. (2023) “Differences in determinants: racialized obstetric care and increases in U.S. state labor induction rates”, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 64(2), pp. 174–191.
Wednesday, 26 April 2023
Zazueta-Borboa, J. et al. (2023) “Reversals in past long-term trends in educational inequalities in life expectancy for selected European countries”, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 77(7).
Wednesday, 26 April 2023
Goldstein, J. et al. (2023) “Mortality modeling of partially observed cohorts using administrative death records”, Population Research and Policy Review, 42(3).
Monday, 17 April 2023
Straub, V., Tsvetkova, M. and Yasseri, T. (2023) “The cost of coordination can exceed the benefit of collaboration in performing complex tasks”, Collective Intelligence, 2(2), pp. 1–16.
Saturday, 15 April 2023
Pinchak, N. et al. (2023) “Paws on the Street: Neighborhood-Level Concentration of Households with Dogs and Urban Crime”, Social Forces, 101(4), pp. 1888–1917.
Thursday, 06 April 2023
Leasure, D. et al. (2023) “Nowcasting daily population displacement in Ukraine through social media advertising data”, Population and Development Review, 49(2), pp. 231–254.
Friday, 31 March 2023
Kashyap, R. et al. (2023) “Digital and computational demography”, in Skopek, J. (ed.) Research Handbook on Digital Sociology. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 48–86.
Friday, 31 March 2023
Ermisch, J. et al. (2023) “Trust and strength of family ties: new experimental evidence”, Social Psychology Quarterly, 86(2), pp. 195–207.
Thursday, 30 March 2023
Golos, A. et al. (2023) “Dear Pandemic: A topic modeling analysis of COVID-19 information needs among readers of an online science communication campaign”, PLoS ONE, 18(3), pp. e0281773 - e0281773.
Tuesday, 28 March 2023
Sanchez-Cespedes, L. et al. (2023) “Social cartography and satellite-derived building coverage for post-census population estimates in difficult-to-access regions of Colombia”, Population Studies, 78(1), pp. 3–20.
Tuesday, 28 March 2023
Tilstra, A. et al. (2023) “The Long-term Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on U.S. Population Structure”, SocArXiv.
Friday, 24 March 2023
Lanfear, C. et al. (2023) “Inequalities in Exposure to Firearm Violence by Race, Sex, and Birth Cohort from Childhood to Age 40, 1995-2021”, JAMA Network Open [Preprint].
Friday, 24 March 2023
Morgan, D. et al. (2023) “’Team-in-the-loop’: Ostrom’s IAD framework ’rules in use’ to map and measure contextual impacts of AI”, arXiv.
Friday, 17 March 2023
Straub, V. et al. (2023) “A multidomain relational framework to guide institutional AI research and adoption”, arXiv.
Thursday, 16 March 2023
Francis, J. et al. (2023) “Unsupervised feature extraction and clustering of aerial images for understanding hazardous road segments”, Research Square.
Friday, 10 March 2023
Masters, R., Tilstra, A. and Coleman-Minahan, K. (2023) “Increases in obstetric interventions and changes in gestational age distributions of U.S. births”, Journal of Women’s Health, 32(6), pp. 641–651.
Thursday, 02 March 2023
Mathieson, I. et al. (2023) “Genome-wide analysis identifies genetic effects on reproductive success and ongoing natural selection at the FADS locus”, Nature Human Behaviour [Preprint].
Wednesday, 01 March 2023
Vamva, E. et al. (2023) “A lentiviral vector B cell gene therapy platform for the delivery of the anti-HIV-1 eCD4-Ig-knob-in-hole-reversed immunoadhesin”, Molecular Therapy — Methods & Clinical Development, 28, pp. 366–384.
Wednesday, 01 March 2023
Rawson, T. et al. (2023) “Climate change and communicable diseases in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries”, Epidemics, 42, p. 100667.