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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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Saturday, 01 March 2014
Hamoudi, A. and Dowd, J. (2014) “Housing Wealth, Psychological Well-being, and Cognitive Functioning of Older Americans”, The Journals of Gerontology Series B, 69(2), pp. 253–262.
Thursday, 16 January 2014
Claussnitzer, M. et al. (2014) “Leveraging cross-species transcription factor binding site patterns: from diabetes risk loci to disease mechanisms”, Cell, 156(1-2), pp. 343–358.
Wednesday, 01 January 2014
Floridi, L. (ed.) (2014) Protection of Information and the Right to Privacy - A New Equilibrium? Springer International Publishing.
Wednesday, 01 January 2014
Ethics of Information Warfare (2014), pp. 1–211.
Wednesday, 01 January 2014
Jonsson, J. and Mood, C. (2014) Poverty and welfare among children and their families 1968-2010, Poverty and welfare among children and their families 1968-2010. Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm, pp. 1–78.
Wednesday, 01 January 2014
Hedman, Å., Lindgren, C. and McCarthy, M. (2014) “Genome-wide association studies of obesity”, in The Genetics of Obesity, pp. 33–53.
Wednesday, 01 January 2014
Mohlke, K. and Lindgren, C. (2014) “Genome-Wide Association Studies of Obesity and Related Traits”, GENETICS IN DIABETES: TYPE 2 DIABETES AND RELATED TRAITS, 23, pp. 58–70.
Wednesday, 01 January 2014
Schleinitz, D. et al. (2014) “Fat depot-specific mRNA expression of novel loci associated with waist-hip ratio”, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY, 38(1), pp. 120–125.
Wednesday, 01 January 2014
Bell, J. et al. (2014) “Differential methylation of the TRPA1 promoter in pain sensitivity.”, Nature communications, 5, p. 2978.
Thursday, 12 December 2013
Präg, P., Mills, M. and Wittek, R. (2013) “Income and income inequality as social determinants of health: do social comparisons play a role?”, European Sociological Review, 30(2), pp. 218–229.
Thursday, 05 December 2013
Grundberg, E. et al. (2013) “Global Analysis of DNA Methylation Variation in Adipose Tissue from Twins Reveals Links to Disease-Associated Variants in Distal Regulatory Elements (vol 93, pg 876, 2013)”, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS, 93(6), pp. 1158–1158.
Friday, 01 November 2013
Dowd, J. et al. (2013) “Re: Childhood adversity and cell-mediated immunity in young adulthood”, Brain Behavior and Immunity, 34, p. 176.
Friday, 01 November 2013
Grundberg, E. et al. (2013) “Global analysis of DNA methylation variation in adipose tissue from twins reveals links to disease-associated variants in distal regulatory elements.”, American journal of human genetics, 93(5), pp. 876–890.
Friday, 04 October 2013
Mills, M. (2013) “Globalisation and family life”, in Abela, A. and Walker, J. (eds.) Contemporary Issues in Family Studies: Global Perspectives on Partnerships, Parenting and Support in a Changing World. Wiley, pp. 249–261.
Tuesday, 01 October 2013
Mills, M. (2013) “The Legacy and Future of the European Sociological Review: An Editorial Comment”, European Sociological Review, 29(5), pp. 885–887.
Tuesday, 01 October 2013
Evans, D. et al. (2013) “Mining the human phenome using allelic scores that index biological intermediates.”, PLoS genetics, 9(10), p. e1003919.
Sunday, 01 September 2013
Schooling, C., Dowd, J. and Jones, H. (2013) “Helicobacter pylori is associated with lower androgen activity among men in NHANES III”, Gut, 62(9), pp. 1384 – 1384.
Sunday, 01 September 2013
Lewis, V. and Kashyap, R. (2013) “Are Muslims a Distinctive Minority? An Empirical Analysis of Religiosity, Social Attitudes, and Islam”, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 52(3), pp. 617–626.
Sunday, 01 September 2013
Monden, C. and de Graaf, N. (2013) “The importance of father’s and own education for self-assessed health across Europe: an East-West divide?”, Sociology of health & illness, 35(7), pp. 977–992.
Thursday, 01 August 2013
Begall, K. and Mills, M. (2013) “The Influence of Educational Field, Occupation, and Occupational Sex Segregation on Fertility in the Netherlands”, European Sociological Review, 29(4), pp. 720–742.