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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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Sunday, 01 April 2012
Ikram, M. et al. (2012) “Common variants at 6q22 and 17q21 are associated with intracranial volume.”, Nature genetics, 44(5), pp. 539–544.
Thursday, 01 March 2012
Stahl, E. et al. (2012) “Bayesian inference analyses of the polygenic architecture of rheumatoid arthritis.”, Nature genetics, 44(5), pp. 483–489.
Wednesday, 01 February 2012
Panagiotou, O., Ioannidis, J. and Genome-Wide Significance Project (2012) “What should the genome-wide significance threshold be? Empirical replication of borderline genetic associations.”, International journal of epidemiology, 41(1), pp. 273–286.
Wednesday, 01 February 2012
Marquez, M. et al. (2012) “Low-frequency variants in HMGA1 are not associated with type 2 diabetes risk.”, Diabetes, 61(2), pp. 524–530.
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Ermisch, J. (2012) “The Puzzling Rise in Childbearing Outside Marriage”, in Understanding Social Change.
Wednesday, 04 January 2012
Pakyz, R. et al. (2012) “A genome-wide association search for type 2 diabetes genes in African Americans.”, PloS one, 7(1).
Sunday, 01 January 2012
Balbo, N. and Mills, M. (2011) “The influence of the family network on the realisation of fertility intentions”, Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, 2011, pp. 179–206.
Sunday, 01 January 2012
Hale, L. et al. (2012) “DOES FIBRINOGEN MEDIATE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LONG SLEEP DURATION AND CORONARY HEART DISEASE?”, in SLEEP, pp. A317 - A317.
Sunday, 01 January 2012
Demirkan, A. et al. (2012) “Genome-wide association study identifies novel loci associated with circulating phospho- and sphingolipid concentrations.”, PLoS genetics, 8(2), p. e1002490.
Sunday, 01 January 2012
Fox, C. et al. (2012) “Genome-wide association for abdominal subcutaneous and visceral adipose reveals a novel locus for visceral fat in women.”, PLoS genetics, 8(5), p. e1002695.
Sunday, 01 January 2012
Bell, J. et al. (2012) “Epigenome-wide scans identify differentially methylated regions for age and age-related phenotypes in a healthy ageing population.”, PLoS genetics, 8(4), p. e1002629.
Sunday, 01 January 2012
Jansen, G., de Graaf, N. and Need, A. (2012) “Explaining the Breakdown of the Religion-Vote Relationship in The Netherlands, 1971-2006”, WEST EUROPEAN POLITICS, 35(4), pp. 756–783.
Sunday, 01 January 2012
Dastani, Z. et al. (2012) “Novel loci for adiponectin levels and their influence on type 2 diabetes and metabolic traits: a multi-ethnic meta-analysis of 45,891 individuals”, PLoS genetics, 8(3).
Sunday, 01 January 2012
Dowd, J., Palermo, T. and Aiello, A. (2012) “Family Poverty Is Associated With Cytomegalovirus Antibody Titers in U.S. Children”, Health Psychology, 31(1), pp. 5–10.
Thursday, 01 December 2011
Ivanova, K., Mills, M. and Veenstra, R. (2011) “The Initiation of Dating in Adolescence: The Effect of Parental Divorce. The TRAILS Study”, Journal of Research on Adolescence, 21(4), pp. 769–775.
Thursday, 01 December 2011
Dowd, J. et al. (2011) “Cytomegalovirus antibodies in dried blood spots: a minimally invasive method for assessing stress, immune function, and aging”, Immunity & Ageing, 8(1), p. 3.
Thursday, 01 December 2011
Cho, Y. et al. (2011) “Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies eight new loci for type 2 diabetes in east Asians.”, Nature genetics, 44(1), pp. 67–72.
Tuesday, 01 November 2011
Dowd, J., Goldman, N. and Weinstein, M. (2011) “Sleep Duration, Sleep Quality, and Biomarkers of Inflammation in a Taiwanese Population”, Annals of Epidemiology, 21(11), pp. 799–806.
Tuesday, 01 November 2011
Begall, K. and Mills, M. (2011) “The Impact of Subjective Work Control, Job Strain and Work–Family Conflict on Fertility Intentions: a European Comparison”, European Journal of Population, 27(4), pp. 433 – 433.
Tuesday, 01 November 2011
Balbo, N. and Mills, M. (2011) “The effects of social capital and social pressure on the intention to have a second or third child in France, Germany, and Bulgaria, 2004–05”, Population Studies, 65(3), pp. 335–351.