Caitlin Myers Explained

Caitlin Myers
Education:Tulane University
University of Texas at Austin
Children:4
Field:Economics
Work Institutions:Middlebury College

Caitlin Knowles Myers is the John G. McCullough Professor of Economics and Director of the Middlebury Initiative for Data and Digital Methods at Middlebury College. She is also a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)[1] and a Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).[2]

She is known for her research on the impacts of contraception and abortion policies in the United States.[3] In 2021, when the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health Organization case, she led an effort to compile the best economic research on the impact of abortion access on women's lives into an amicus brief, which was signed by more than 150 economists.[4]

Life

Myers grew up in rural West Virginia and Georgia and trained as a labor economist, receiving her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 2005. Myers was widowed in 2011, when her husband, firefighter Adam Myers, was killed in a car accident.[5] [6] [7]

Research

Myers' research examines issues related to gender, race, fertility and the economy. In recent work, she has studied the impact of contraception and abortion policies. Her research demonstrates that the liberalization of abortion policies in the 1960s and 1970s allowed large numbers of women to delay marriage and motherhood.[8] She also has studied the effects of mandatory waiting periods,[9] parental involvement laws,[10] and driving distances on abortion and birth rates.[11] Her most recent work assesses the effects of the Dobbs decision on American fertility.[12]

Her work on the changing influence of education on women's age at motherhood[13] [14] and the impact of abortion access on birth rates is featured in the media.[15]

Selected works

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Caitlin Knowles Myers NBER - National Bureau of Economic Research. www.nber.org. 2024-08-13.
  2. Web site: Caitlin Knowles Myers IZA - Institute of Labor Economics. www.iza.org. 2019-07-26.
  3. News: The Age That Women Have Babies: How a Gap Divides America. Bui. Quoctrung. 2018-08-04. The New York Times. 2019-07-26. Miller. Claire Cain. en-US. 0362-4331.
  4. Web site: Brouwer . Derek . SCOTUS Doesn't Know How Abortion Rights Affect Women, Alito Wrote. A Midd Prof Says Otherwise. . 2022-05-10 . Seven Days . en.
  5. Web site: Episode 5: All of Our Strength. Davis. Erin. 2017-03-21. middcast.middcreate.net. en. 2019-07-26.
  6. Web site: Guest Post – Meet the Parent V. 2014-07-02. MiniBury. en-US. 2019-07-26.
  7. Web site: Vermont man killed in head-on collision here. Burnside. Vanessa Sorrell. The Randolph Leader. en. 2019-07-26.
  8. Myers 2017.
  9. Myers 2021.
  10. Myers 2020.
  11. Lindo et al., 2020; Myers, 2024.
  12. Myers 2024; Dench et al., 2024.
  13. Web site: This Is the Biggest Factor in Determining the Age Women Have Kids. Fortune. en. 2019-07-26.
  14. Web site: The American Family - Older And Smaller. Innovation Hub WGBH.org Blogs. 2019-07-26.
  15. News: Where Roe v. Wade Has the Biggest Effect. Bui. Quoctrung. 2019-07-18. The New York Times. 2019-07-26. Miller. Claire Cain. en-US. 0362-4331. Sanger-Katz. Margot.

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