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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, 16 June 2021
Colchero, F. et al. (2021) “The long lives of primates and the ‘invariant rate of ageing’ hypothesis”, Nature Communications, 12(1).
Wednesday, 16 June 2021
Amit, A. et al. (2021) “Data Sharing in Southeast Asia During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic”, Frontiers in Public Health, 9, pp. 662842–662842.
Monday, 14 June 2021
Boo, G. et al. (2021) “High-resolution population estimation using household survey data and building footprints”, arXiv.
Tuesday, 08 June 2021
Herd, P., Mills, M. and Dowd, J. (2021) “Reconstructing sociogenomics research: Dismantling biological race and genetic essentialism narratives”, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 62(3), pp. 419–435.
Thursday, 03 June 2021
Jennings, W. et al. (2021) “Lack of trust, conspiracy beliefs, and social media use predict COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy”, Vaccines, 9(6).
Wednesday, 02 June 2021
Razai, M. et al. (2021) “COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: the five Cs to tackle behavioural and sociodemographic factors”, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 114(6), pp. 295–298.
Wednesday, 02 June 2021
Schwanitz, K., Rampazzo, F. and Vitali, A. (2021) “Unpacking intentions to leave the parental home in Europe using the Generations and Gender Survey”, Demographic Research [Preprint].
Tuesday, 01 June 2021
Jochem, W. et al. (2021) “Classifying settlement types from multi-scale spatial patterns of building footprints”, Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science, 48(5), pp. 1161–1179.
Tuesday, 18 May 2021
Millard, J. et al. (2021) “Global effects of land-use intensity on local pollinator biodiversity”, Nature Communications, 12(1), pp. 2902–2902.
Monday, 17 May 2021
Thomson, D. et al. (2021) “How Accurate Are WorldPop-Global-Unconstrained Gridded Population Data at the Cell-Level?: A Simulation Analysis in Urban Namibia”, Preprints.org.
Saturday, 15 May 2021
Riffe, T., Acosta, E. and Aburto, J.-M. (2021) “Data resource profile: COVerAGE-DB: a global demographic database of COVID-19 cases and deaths”, International Journal of Epidemiology, 50(2), pp. 390 – 390f.
Wednesday, 05 May 2021
Gu, M. et al. (2021) “iPSC–endothelial cell phenotypic drug screening and in silico analyses identify tyrphostin-AG1296 for pulmonary arterial hypertension”, Science Translational Medicine, 13(592).
Tuesday, 04 May 2021
Akimova, E. et al. (2021) “Gene-environment dependencies lead to collider bias in models with polygenic scores”, Scientific Reports, 11.
Saturday, 01 May 2021
Monden, C., Pison, G. and Smits, J. (2021) “Twin Peaks: more twinning in humans than ever before.”, Human reproduction (Oxford, England), 36(6), pp. 1666–1673.
Saturday, 01 May 2021
Thorolfsdottir, R. et al. (2021) “Genetic insight into sick sinus syndrome.”, European heart journal, 42(20), pp. 1959–1971.
Saturday, 01 May 2021
Thorolfsdottir, R. et al. (2021) “Genetic insight into sick sinus syndrome.”, European heart journal, 42(20), pp. 1959–1971.
Thursday, 29 April 2021
O’Brien, K. et al. (2021) “Age-based targeting of biannual azithromycin distribution for child survival in Niger: an adaptive cluster-randomized trial protocol (AVENIR)”, BMC Public Health, 21(1).
Tuesday, 27 April 2021
Engzell, P., Frey, A. and Verhagen, M. (2021) “Learning loss due to school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(17), p. e2022376118.
Friday, 23 April 2021
Newman, S. and Furbank, R. (2021) “A multiple species, continent-wide, million-phenotype agronomic plant dataset”, Scientific Data, 8(1), p. 116.
Wednesday, 14 April 2021
Perrotta, D. et al. (2021) “Behaviours and attitudes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: insights from a cross-national Facebook survey”, EPJ Data Science, 10(1).