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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 July 2011
Dowd, J. and Todd, M. (2011) “Does Self-reported Health Bias the Measurement of Health Inequalities in U.S. Adults? Evidence Using Anchoring Vignettes From the Health and Retirement Study”, The Journals of Gerontology Series B, 66B(4), pp. 478–489.
Wednesday, 01 June 2011
Small, K. et al. (2011) “Identification of an imprinted master trans regulator at the KLF14 locus related to multiple metabolic phenotypes.”, Nature genetics, 43(6), pp. 561–564.
Sunday, 01 May 2011
Herrera, B., Keildson, S. and Lindgren, C. (2011) “Genetics and epigenetics of obesity”, Maturitas, 69(1), pp. 41–49.
Sunday, 01 May 2011
KIRK, D. and MATSUDA, M. (2011) “LEGAL CYNICISM, COLLECTIVE EFFICACY, AND THE ECOLOGY OF ARREST*”, Criminology, 49(2), pp. 443–472.
Sunday, 01 May 2011
Dowd, J. and Zajacova, A. (2011) “Response to Commentary ‘About the Role of Socioeconomic Position on the Relation Between Objective Health Status and Self-Rated Health: A Rapid Commentary on Dowd’s Article’”, Annals of Epidemiology, 21(5), pp. 388–389.
Sunday, 01 May 2011
Olden, K. et al. (2011) “Discovering How Environmental Exposures Alter Genes Could Lead To New Treatments For Chronic Illnesses”, Health Affairs, 30(5), pp. 833–841.
Wednesday, 27 April 2011
Allo, P. (2011) “Putting information first: Luciano floridi and the philosophy of information”, in, pp. 1–8.
Thursday, 21 April 2011
Pasaniuc, B. et al. (2011) “Enhanced statistical tests for GWAS in admixed populations: assessment using African Americans from CARe and a Breast Cancer Consortium.”, PLoS genetics, 7(4).
Friday, 01 April 2011
Kilpeläinen, T. et al. (2011) “Obesity-susceptibility loci have a limited influence on birth weight: a meta-analysis of up to 28,219 individuals.”, The American journal of clinical nutrition, 93(4), pp. 851–860.
Friday, 01 April 2011
Voight, B. et al. (2011) “Corrigendum: Twelve type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci identified through large-scale association analysis.”, Nat Genet, 43(4), p. 388.
Tuesday, 01 March 2011
Speliotes, E. et al. (2011) “Genome-wide association analysis identifies variants associated with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease that have distinct effects on metabolic traits.”, PLoS genetics, 7(3), p. e1001324.
Tuesday, 01 March 2011
Clayton, E. et al. (2011) “The Impact of Bisphenol A and Triclosan on Immune Parameters in the U.S. Population, NHANES 2003–2006”, Environmental Health Perspectives, 119(3), pp. 390–396.
Thursday, 17 February 2011
Simanek, A. et al. (2011) “Seropositivity to Cytomegalovirus, Inflammation, All-Cause and Cardiovascular Disease-Related Mortality in the United States”, PLOS ONE, 6(2), p. e16103.
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Zajacova, A., Dowd, J. and Burgard, S. (2011) “Overweight Adults May Have the Lowest Mortality—Do They Have the Best Health?”, American Journal of Epidemiology, 173(4), pp. 430–437.
Tuesday, 01 February 2011
“European Sociological Review” (2011) European Sociological Review, 27(1), pp. i2 - i2.
Tuesday, 01 February 2011
Dowd, J. et al. (2011) “Education and Levels of Salivary Cortisol Over the Day in US Adults”, Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 41(1), pp. 13–20.
Tuesday, 01 February 2011
Dowd, J. et al. (2011) “Deeper and wider: income and mortality in the USA over three decades”, International Journal of Epidemiology, 40(1), pp. 183–188.
Saturday, 01 January 2011
Kirk, D. et al. (2011) “The Paradox of Law Enforcement in Immigrant Communities: Does Tough Immigration Enforcement Undermine Public Safety?.”
Saturday, 01 January 2011
Kirk, D. and Hyra, D. (2011) “Home Foreclosures and Community Crime: Causal or Spurious Association?.”
Saturday, 01 January 2011
Kirk, D. and Sampson, R. (2011) “Crime and the production of safe schools”, in Whither Opportunity?: Rising Inequality, Schools, and Children’s Life Chances, pp. 397–417.