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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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Breen, C. et al. (no date) “Estimating death rates in complex humanitarian emergencies using the network survival method”, SocArXiv.
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].
Breen, C. (no date) “Black-White Mortality Crossover: New Evidence from Social Security Mortality Records”, SocArXiv.
Breen, C. and Feehan, D. (no date) “New Data Sources for Demographic Research”, SocArXiv.
Reed, R. et al. (no date) “Addressing Social Determinants While Social Distancing: The Development of an Evidence-Based Social Needs Screening for a Telehealth Setting”, medRxiv.
Andriano, L., Behrman, J. and MONDEN, C. (no date) “Mapping Husbands’ Dominance in Wives’ Health Decision-Making: A Diffusion Perspective in Sub-Saharan Africa”, Demography [Preprint].
Clarke, P. et al. (no date) “Voting Patterns, Mortality, and Health Inequalities in England”, medRxiv.
Scheiring, G. et al. (no date) “Deindustrialization and the Postsocialist Mortality Crisis”, SocArXiv.
Breen, C. et al. (no date) “Mapping subnational gender gaps in internet and mobile adoption using social media data”, SocArXiv.
Breen, C. et al. (no date) “Mapping subnational gender gaps in internet and mobile adoption using social media data”, SocArXiv.
Allen, R. et al. (no date) “The Economic Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Ethnic Minorities in Manchester”, SSRN Electronic Journal [Preprint].
Chamberlain, H. et al. (no date) “Building footprint data for countries in Africa: to what extent are existing data products comparable?”, Research Square.
Akimova, E. (no date) “Advances and current methodological problems in understanding depression: a sociogenomic approach.”
Mills, M. et al. (no date) “Identification of 370 loci for age at onset of sexual and reproductive behaviour, highlighting common aetiology with reproductive biology, externalizing behaviour and longevity”, https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.06.081273v1.
Wolfram, T., Tropf, F. and Rahal, C. (no date) “Short Essays Written During Childhood Predict Cognition and Educational Attainment Close to or Better than Expert Assessment”, SocArXiv.
Bruce, M. et al. (no date) “Mapping the global geography of cybercrime with the World Cybercrime Index”, CrimRxiv.
Karra, M. and Wilde, J. (no date) “Economic Foundations of Contraceptive Transitions: Theories and a Review of the Evidence”, SSRN Electronic Journal.
Keivabu, R., Cozzani, M. and Wilde, J. (no date) “Temperature and Fertility: Evidence from Spanish Register Data”, SSRN Electronic Journal.
Mills, C. et al. (no date) “From metric to action: An evaluation framework to translate infectious disease forecasts into policy decisions”, medRxiv.
Sako, M. et al. (no date) “Scaling Up Firms in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Fintech and Lawtech Ecosystems Compared.”