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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, 22 April 2020
Rawson, T., Wilkins, K. and Bonsall, M. (2020) “Optimal control approaches for combining medicines and mosquito control in tackling dengue”, Royal Society Open Science, 7(4).
Thursday, 16 April 2020
Dowd, J. et al. (2020) “Demographic science aids in understanding the spread and fatality rates of COVID-19”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(18), pp. 9696–9698.
Wednesday, 15 April 2020
Block, P. et al. (2020) “Social network-based distancing strategies to flatten the COVID 19 curve in a post-lockdown world”, arXiv.
Thursday, 02 April 2020
Riffe, T. and Aburto, J. (2020) “Lexis fields”, Demographic Research, 42, pp. 713–725.
Wednesday, 01 April 2020
Neville, H. et al. (2020) “Application of multiple‐population viability analysis to evaluate species recovery alternatives”, Conservation Biology, 34(2), pp. 482–493.
Monday, 30 March 2020
Salganik, M. et al. (2020) “Measuring the predictability of life outcomes with a scientific mass collaboration”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(15), pp. 8398–8403.
Wednesday, 18 March 2020
Kuffer, M. et al. (2020) “The Role of Earth Observation in an Integrated Deprived Area Mapping ‘System’ for Low-to-Middle Income Countries”, Remote Sensing, 12(6), p. 982.
Wednesday, 18 March 2020
Dowd, J. et al. (2020) “Demographic science aids in understanding the spread and fatality rates of COVID-19”. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Thursday, 05 March 2020
Mills, M. and Rahal, C. (2020) “The GWAS Diversity Monitor tracks diversity by disease in real time”, Nature Genetics, 52(3), pp. 242–243.
Monday, 24 February 2020
Aburto, J. et al. (2020) “Dynamics of life expectancy and life span equality”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(10), pp. 5250–5259.
Saturday, 01 February 2020
Desmond, M., Papachristos, A. and Kirk, D. (2020) “Evidence of the Effect of Police Violence on Citizen Crime Reporting”, American Sociological Review, 85(1), pp. 184–190.
Saturday, 01 February 2020
Tilstra, A. and Masters, R. (2020) “Worth the Weight? Recent Trends in Obstetric Practices, Gestational Age, and Birth Weight in the United States”, Demography, 57(1), pp. 99–121.
Monday, 27 January 2020
Boo, G. et al. (2020) “A grid-based sample design framework for household surveys”, Gates Open Research, 4, p. 13.
Sunday, 19 January 2020
Betthaeuser, B., Bourne, M. and Bukodi, E. (2020) “Understanding the mobility chances of children from working-class backgrounds in Britain: how important are cognitive ability and locus of control?”, British Journal of Sociology, 71(2), pp. 349–365.
Wednesday, 15 January 2020
Sako, M. et al. (2020) “Scaling up firms in entrepreneurial ecosystems: Fintech and Lawtech ecosystems compared.”
Saturday, 11 January 2020
Kirk, D., Cavalli, N. and Brazil, N. (2020) “The implications of ridehailing for risky driving and road accident injuries and fatalities”, Social Science and Medicine, 250.
Thursday, 09 January 2020
Henry, A. et al. (2020) “Genome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation analysis provide insights into the pathogenesis of heart failure”, Nature Communications, 11(1).
Wednesday, 01 January 2020
Wilde, J., Chen, W. and Lohmann, S. (2020) “COVID-19 and the Future of Us Fertility: What Can We Learn from Google?”, SSRN Electronic Journal.
Wednesday, 01 January 2020
Wilde, J. et al. (2020) “The Effect of Antimalarial Campaigns on Child Mortality and Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa”, SSRN Electronic Journal.
Wednesday, 01 January 2020
Perrotta, D. et al. (2020) “Behaviours and attitudes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: Insights from a cross-national Facebook survey”, medRxiv.