Martha Bailey

Martha J. Bailey is a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a member of the executive committee of the American Economic Association.[1] She was previously a Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan from 2007 to 2020, where she was the first woman internally promoted to tenure in that department.[2] In November 2017, Bloomberg Businessweek named her someone to watch in 2018, because "Her research on the positive economic effects of contraception has influenced debates around health care and pay equity."[3]

Martha J. Bailey
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Los Angeles
University of Michigan
FieldEconomics
Alma materVanderbilt University, PhD
Agnes Scott College, BA
Doctoral
advisor		William J. Collins
Information at IDEAS / RePEc
Websitehttps://sites.google.com/g.ucla.edu/marthajbailey

Her research focus is long-run perspectives on how modern contraception changed women's childbearing, career decisions, and earnings histories. She has also studied the short and longer-term impact of the Great Society programs.[4]

Selected works
  • Bailey, Martha J. "More power to the pill: the impact of contraceptive freedom on women's life cycle labor supply." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 121, no. 1 (2006): 289-320.
  • Bailey, Martha, and Susan M. Dynarski. "Inequality in postsecondary attainment." (2011).
  • Bailey, Martha J. "Momma's got the pill": how Anthony Comstock and Griswold v. Connecticut shaped US childbearing." American Economic Review 100, no. 1 (2010): 98-129.
  • Bailey, Martha J., Brad Hershbein, and Amalia R. Miller. "The opt-in revolution? Contraception and the gender gap in wages." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 4, no. 3 (2012): 225-54.
  • Bailey, Martha J. "Reexamining the impact of family planning programs on US fertility: evidence from the War on Poverty and the early years of Title X." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 4, no. 2 (2012): 62-97.

References
  1. "American Economic Association". www.aeaweb.org. Retrieved 2019-01-03.
  2. "Bailey Assumes the Directorship of CeMENT for Faculty in Economics Doctoral Programs | U-M LSA Department of Economics". lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
  3. "Watch These People in 2018". www.bloomberg.com. 2017-11-30. Retrieved 2019-01-03.
  4. "Martha J. Bailey | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics". www.iza.org. Retrieved 2019-01-03.


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