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

Tuesday, 01 January 2019
Testa, M. and Rampazzo, F. (2019) “From intentions to births: paths of realisation in a multi-dimensional life course”, Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, 1, pp. 177–198.
Tuesday, 01 January 2019
Newman, S. (2019) “Supercentenarian and remarkable age records exhibit patterns indicative of clerical errors and pension fraud”, bioRxiv.
Tuesday, 01 January 2019
Tariq, I. et al. (2019) “Development and characterization of repeating macro and micro geometric surface features on plain carbon steel using chemical etching”, NUST Journal of Engineering Sciences, 12, pp. 9–14.
Tuesday, 01 January 2019
Leasure, D. et al. (2019) “Hierarchical multi‐population viability analysis”, Ecology, 100(1), p. e02538.
Monday, 24 December 2018
Bukodi, E., Bourne, M. and Betthäuser, B. (2018) “Cognitive ability, lifelong learning, and social mobility in Britain: Do further qualifications provide second chances for bright people from disadvantaged backgrounds?”, European Sociological Review, 35(1), pp. 49–64.
Sunday, 23 December 2018
Engzell, P. (2018) “Aspiration squeeze: The struggle of children to positively selected immigrants”, Sociology of Education, 92(1), pp. 83–103.
Friday, 21 December 2018
Giri, A. et al. (2018) “Trans-ethnic association study of blood pressure determinants in over 750,000 individuals”, Nature Genetics, 51, pp. 51–62.
Thursday, 20 December 2018
Newman, S. (2018) “Errors as a primary cause of late-life mortality deceleration and plateaus”, PLOS Biology, 16(12), p. e2006776.
Thursday, 20 December 2018
Newman, S. (2018) “Plane inclinations: A critique of hypothesis and model choice in Barbi et al”, PLOS Biology, 16(12), p. e3000048.
Wednesday, 19 December 2018
Pesando, L. (2018) “Global family change: persistent diversity with development”, Population and Development Review, 45(1), pp. 133–168.
Wednesday, 19 December 2018
Day, F. et al. (2018) “Large-scale genome-wide meta-analysis of polycystic ovary syndrome suggests shared genetic architecture for different diagnosis criteria”, PLoS Genetics, 14(12).
Monday, 03 December 2018
Pulit, S. et al. (2018) “Atrial fibrillation genetic risk differentiates cardioembolic stroke from other stroke subtypes.”, Neurology. Genetics, 4(6), p. e293.
Saturday, 01 December 2018
Dowd, J. and Renson, A. (2018) “‘Under the Skin’ and into the Gut: Social Epidemiology of the Microbiome”, Current Epidemiology Reports, 5(4), pp. 432–441.
Saturday, 01 December 2018
Jónsson, H. et al. (2018) “Multiple transmissions of de novo mutations in families”, Nature Genetics, 50(12), pp. 1674–1680.
Saturday, 01 December 2018
Aburto, J. et al. (2018) “Potential gains in life expectancy by reducing inequality of lifespans in Denmark: an international comparison and cause-of-death analysis”, BMC Public Health, 18(1), p. 831.
Saturday, 01 December 2018
Evangelou, E. et al. (2018) “Publisher Correction: Genetic analysis of over 1 million people identifies 535 new loci associated with blood pressure traits.”, Nature genetics [Preprint], (12).
Saturday, 01 December 2018
Aburto, J. and van Raalte, A. (2018) “Lifespan Dispersion in Times of Life Expectancy Fluctuation: The Case of Central and Eastern Europe”, Demography, 55(6), pp. 2071–2096.
Friday, 23 November 2018
Courtin, E. et al. (2018) “Longer schooling but not better off? A quasi-experimental study of the effect of compulsory schooling on biomarkers in France”, Social Science and Medicine, 220, pp. 379–386.
Thursday, 22 November 2018
Heath, A. et al. (2018) Social Progress in Britain. Oxford University Press.
Friday, 16 November 2018
Weber, I., Kashyap, R. and Zagheni, E. (2018) “Using advertising audience estimates to improve global development statistics”, ITU Journal: ICT Discoveries, 1(2).