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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, 18 April 2013
Eisinga, R. et al. (2013) “Religion in Dutch Society 2005.”
Monday, 01 April 2013
Dowd, J. et al. (2013) “Cytomegalovirus is associated with reduced telomerase activity in the Whitehall II cohort”, Experimental Gerontology, 48(4), pp. 385–390.
Thursday, 28 March 2013
Evans, G. and de Graaf, N. (eds.) (2013) Political Choice Matters. Oxford University Press.
Thursday, 28 March 2013
Evans, G. and De Graaf, N. (2013) “The Importance of Political Choice and Other Lessons Learned”, in Political Choice Matters. Oxford University Press, pp. 390–406.
Thursday, 28 March 2013
Jansen, G., Evans, G. and de Graaf, N. (2013) “Class Voting and Left-Right Party Positions”, in Political Choice Matters. Oxford University Press, pp. 46–82.
Thursday, 28 March 2013
Evans, G. and Graaf, N. (2013) “Explaining Cleavage Strength”, in Political Choice Matters. Oxford University Press, pp. 2–26.
Thursday, 28 March 2013
Graaf, N., Jansen, G. and Need, A. (2013) “The Political Evolution of Class and Religion”, in Political Choice Matters. Oxford University Press, pp. 205–242.
Friday, 01 March 2013
Ashraf, Q., Weil, D. and Wilde, J. (2013) “The Effect of Fertility Reduction on Economic Growth”, Population and Development Review, 39(1), pp. 97–130.
Friday, 01 March 2013
Tabassum, R. et al. (2013) “Genome-wide association study for type 2 diabetes in Indians identifies a new susceptibility locus at 2q21.”, Diabetes, 62(3), pp. 977–986.
Friday, 01 March 2013
Jansen, G., Evans, G. and Graaf, N. (2013) “Class voting and Left-Right party positions: A comparative study of 15 Western democracies, 1960-2005.”, Social science research, 42(2), pp. 376–400.
Friday, 01 February 2013
Potârcă, G., Mills, M. and Lesnard, L. (2013) “Trajectoires de formation de la famille en Roumanie, en Fédération de Russie et en France: en direction de la Seconde Transition Démographique?”, European Journal of Population, 29(1), pp. 69–101.
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.
Friday, 01 February 2013
Monden, C. and Smits, J. (2013) “Maternal education is associated with reduced female disadvantages in under-five mortality in sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia.”, International journal of epidemiology, 42(1), pp. 211–218.
Friday, 01 February 2013
Monden, C. and Uunk, W. (2013) “For Better and for Worse: The Relationship Between Union Dissolution and Self-Assessed Health in European Panel Data”, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POPULATION-REVUE EUROPEENNE DE DEMOGRAPHIE, 29(1), pp. 103–125.
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
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.