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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 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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
Tuesday, 01 November 2011
Chen, G.-Q. et al. (2011) “Preface”, in ACTA MATHEMATICA SCIENTIA, pp. 2101–2101.
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
Mills, M. et al. (2011) “Why do people postpone parenthood? Reasons and social policy incentives”, Human Reproduction Update, 17(6), pp. 848–860.
Saturday, 15 October 2011
Zajacova, A. and Dowd, J. (2011) “Reliability of Self-rated Health in US Adults”, American Journal of Epidemiology, 174(8), pp. 977–983.
Saturday, 01 October 2011
Small, K. et al. (2011) “Erratum: Identification of an imprinted master trans regulator at the KLF14 locus related to multiple metabolic phenotypes (Nature Genetics (2011) 43 (561-564))”, Nature Genetics, 43(10), p. 1040.
Saturday, 01 October 2011
Strawbridge, R. et al. (2011) “Genome-wide association identifies nine common variants associated with fasting proinsulin levels and provides new insights into the pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes.”, Diabetes, 60(10), pp. 2624–2634.
Saturday, 01 October 2011
Chambers, J. et al. (2011) “Genome-wide association study identifies loci influencing concentrations of liver enzymes in plasma.”, Nature genetics, 43(11), pp. 1131–1138.
Thursday, 01 September 2011
Drong, A. et al. (2011) “The presence of methylation quantitative trait loci indicate a direct genetic influence on the level of methylation in adipose tissue”, in DIABETOLOGIA, pp. S163 - S164.
Thursday, 01 September 2011
Zhu, H. et al. (2011) “The Lin28/let-7 axis regulates glucose metabolism.”, Cell, 147(1), pp. 81–94.
Thursday, 01 September 2011
Jansen, G., De Graaf, N. and Need, A. (2011) “Class voting, social changes and political changes in the Netherlands 1971-2006”, ELECTORAL STUDIES, 30(3), pp. 510–524.