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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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Friday, 01 February 2013
Balbo, N., Billari, F. and Mills, M. (2013) “Fertility in Advanced Societies: A Review of Research”, European Journal of Population, 29(1), pp. 1–38.
Tuesday, 01 January 2013
Heyes, S. et al. (2013) “COOPERATIVE INVESTMENT IN ADOLESCENT SOCIAL NETWORKS”, in JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE, pp. 35–35.
Tuesday, 01 January 2013
Aiello, A. and Dowd, J. (2013) “Socio-economic Status and Immunosenescence”, in Immunosenescence. Springer Nature, pp. 145–157.
Tuesday, 01 January 2013
Dowd, J. et al. (2013) “Seroprevalence of Epstein-Barr Virus Infection in U.S. Children Ages 6-19, 2003-2010”, PLOS ONE, 8(5), p. e64921.
Tuesday, 01 January 2013
Arveiler, D. et al. (2013) “The role of adiposity in cardiometabolic traits: a Mendelian randomization analysis.”, PLoS medicine, 10(6).
Tuesday, 01 January 2013
Li, H. et al. (2013) “A genome-wide association study identifies GRK5 and RASGRP1 as type 2 diabetes loci in Chinese Hans.”, Diabetes, 62(1), pp. 291–298.
Tuesday, 01 January 2013
Ruark, E. et al. (2013) “Mosaic PPM1D mutations are associated with predisposition to breast and ovarian cancer.”, Nature, 493(7432), pp. 406–410.
Tuesday, 01 January 2013
Vimaleswaran, K. et al. (2013) “Causal relationship between obesity and vitamin D status: bi-directional Mendelian randomization analysis of multiple cohorts.”, PLoS medicine, 10(2).
Tuesday, 01 January 2013
Huertas-Vazquez, A. et al. (2013) “Novel loci associated with increased risk of sudden cardiac death in the context of coronary artery disease.”, PloS one, 8(4), p. e59905.
Tuesday, 01 January 2013
Kirk, D. and Sampson, R. (2013) “Juvenile Arrest and Collateral Educational Damage in the Transition to Adulthood”, Sociology of Education, 86(1), pp. 36–62.
Tuesday, 01 January 2013
Hyra, D. et al. (2013) “Metropolitan Segregation and the Subprime Lending Crisis”, Housing Policy Debate, 23(1), pp. 177–198.
Tuesday, 01 January 2013
Mills, M. and Blossfeld, H.-P. (2013) “The Second Demographic Transition Meets Globalization: A Comprehensive Theory to Understand Changes in Family Formation in an Era of Rising Uncertainty”, in Negotiating the Life Course. Springer Nature, pp. 9–33.
Saturday, 01 December 2012
Mooi-Reci, I. and Mills, M. (2012) “The Gendered Consequences of Unemployment Insurance Reforms”, Social Forces, 91(2), pp. 583–608.
Saturday, 01 December 2012
Palermo, T. and Dowd, J. (2012) “Childhood obesity and human capital accumulation”, Social Science & Medicine, 75(11), pp. 1989–1998.
Saturday, 01 December 2012
Eyre, S. et al. (2012) “High-density genetic mapping identifies new susceptibility loci for rheumatoid arthritis.”, Nature genetics, 44(12), pp. 1336–1340.
Thursday, 01 November 2012
1000 Genomes Project Consortium et al. (2012) “An integrated map of genetic variation from 1,092 human genomes.”, Nature, 491(7422), pp. 56–65.
Thursday, 01 November 2012
Jostins, L. et al. (2012) “Host-microbe interactions have shaped the genetic architecture of inflammatory bowel disease.”, Nature, 491(7422), pp. 119–124.
Thursday, 01 November 2012
Ermisch, J. and Washbrook, E. (2012) “Residential Mobility: Wealth, Demographic and Housing Market Effects”, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 59(5), pp. 483–499.
Saturday, 01 September 2012
Leasure, D. et al. (2012) “Efficient New Above-Ground Bucket Traps Produce Comparable Data to that of Standard Transects for the Endangered American Burying Beetle, Nicrophorus Americanus Olivier (Coleoptera: Silphidae)”, The Coleopterists Bulletin, 66(3), pp. 209–218.
Saturday, 01 September 2012
Scott, R. et al. (2012) “Large-scale association analyses identify new loci influencing glycemic traits and provide insight into the underlying biological pathways”, Nature Genetics, 44(9), pp. 991–1005.