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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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Monday, 01 November 1982
Buckley, R. and Ermisch, J. (1982) “GOVERNMENT POLICY AND HOUSE PRICES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM: AN ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS”, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 44(4), pp. 273–304.
Sunday, 01 November 1981
Ermisch, J. (1981) “Economic opportunities, marriage squeezes and the propensity to marry: An economic analysis of period marriage rates in England and Wales”, Population Studies, 35(3), pp. 347–356.
Wednesday, 01 July 1981
Ermisch, J. (1981) “Housing in the eighties: Demographic impetus and policy response”, Policy Studies, 2(1), pp. 34–48.
Sunday, 01 February 1981
Ermisch, J. (1981) “AN ECONOMIC THEORY OF HOUSEHOLD FORMATION*:THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM THE GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY”, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 28(1), pp. 1–19.
Thursday, 01 May 1980
ERMISCH, J. (1980) “TIME COSTS, ASPIRATIONS AND THE EFFECT OF ECONOMIC GROWTH ON GERMAN FERTILITY*”, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 42(2), pp. 125–143.
Thursday, 01 March 1979
Ermisch, J. (1979) “Trends in Labour Supply and Their Implications”, Management Decision, Volume 17(Issue 3), pp. 228–240.
Thursday, 01 March 1979
Ermisch, J. (1979) “The Relevance of the ‘Easterlin hypothesis’ and the ‘new home economics’ to fertility movements in Great Britain”, Population Studies, 33(1), pp. 39–58.
Sunday, 01 December 1974
Ermisch, J. and Weiss, T. (1974) “The impact of the rural market on the growth of the urban workforce: United States, 1870–1900”, Explorations in Economic History, 11(2), pp. 137–153.
Ermisch, J. and Gambetta, D. (no date) “The Long Shadow of Income on Trustworthiness.”
Verhagen, M. (no date) “Computer age sociology.”
Clarke, P. et al. (no date) “Voting Patterns, Mortality, and Health Inequalities in England”, medRxiv.
Akimova, E. (no date) “Advances and current methodological problems in understanding depression: a sociogenomic approach.”
Muellbauer, J. (no date) “Housing, debt and the economy: a tale of two countries”, Department of Economics Discussion Paper Series. University of Oxford.
Millard, J. et al. (no date) “Stringent COVID-19 government restrictions were associated with a marked increase in Twitter activity in Europe”, SocArXiv.
Breen, C. et al. (no date) “Mapping subnational gender gaps in internet and mobile adoption using social media data”, SocArXiv.
Muellbauer, J., Cameron, G. and Muellbauer, J. (no date) “Was there a British house price bubble? Evidence from a regional panel”, Department of Economics Discussion Paper Series. University of Oxford.
Muellbauer, J. (no date) “Conditional eurobonds and the eurozone sovereign debt crisis”, Department of Economics Discussion Paper Series. University of Oxford.
McCarthy, M. (no date) “PROTEIN-CODING VARIANTS IMPLICATE NOVEL GENES RELATED TO LIPID HOMEOSTASIS 1 CONTRIBUTING TO BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION”, Nature Genetics [Preprint].
Mills, C. et al. (no date) “From metric to action: An evaluation framework to translate infectious disease forecasts into policy decisions”, medRxiv.
MONDEN, C., PRAEG, P. and Potente, C. (no date) “Does Children’s Education Improve Parental Health and Longevity? Causal Evidence from Great Britain”, Journal of Health and Social Behavior [Preprint].