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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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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
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.
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.
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).
Thursday, 01 November 2018
Ligthart, S. et al. (2018) “Genome analyses of >200,000 individuals identify 58 loci for chronic inflammation and highlight pathways that link inflammation and complex disorders”, American Journal of Human Genetics, 103(5), pp. 691–706.
Thursday, 01 November 2018
Baker, B. et al. (2018) “Adaptive rotating-wave approximation for driven open quantum systems”, Physical Review A, 98(5), p. 052111.
Monday, 29 October 2018
Chauvin, V. and Muellbauer, J. (2018) “Consumption, household portfolios and the housing market in France”, Économie et Statistique, 500-501-502, pp. 151–178.
Monday, 29 October 2018
Chauvin, V. and Muellbauer, J. (2018) “Consumption, household portfolios and the housing market in France”, Economie et Statistique/Economics and Statistics, 500-501-502, pp. 157–178.
Monday, 22 October 2018
Herd, P. et al. (2018) “Social and population health science approaches to understand the human microbiome”, Nature Human Behaviour, 2(11), pp. 808–815.
Monday, 08 October 2018
Gruijters, R. and Ermisch, J. (2018) “Patrilocal, matrilocal or neolocal? Intergenerational proximity of married couples in China”, Journal of Marriage and Family, 81(3), pp. 549–566.
Monday, 01 October 2018
Qutteina, Y. et al. (2018) “Social resources and Arab women’s perinatal mental health: A systematic review”, Women and Birth, 31(5), pp. 386–397.
Monday, 17 September 2018
Evangelou, E. et al. (2018) “Genetic analysis of over 1 million people identifies 535 new loci associated with blood pressure traits”, Nature Genetics, 50(10), pp. 1412–1425.