Martha Bailey Explained
Martha Bailey should not be confused with Martha Baillie.
| Martha J. Bailey |
| Alma Mater: | Vanderbilt University, PhD
Agnes Scott College, BA |
| Doctoral Advisor: | William J. Collins |
| Website: | https://sites.google.com/g.ucla.edu/marthajbailey |
| Children: | 2 |
| Field: | Economics |
| Institutions: | University of California, Los Angeles
University of Michigan |
| Awards: | Carolyn Shaw Bell Award (2022) |
| Repec Prefix: | f |
| Repec Id: | pba669 |
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] In 2022, she was awarded the Carolyn Shaw Bell Award.[4]
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.[5]
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.
Notes and References
- Web site: American Economic Association. www.aeaweb.org. 2019-01-03.
- Web site: Bailey Assumes the Directorship of CeMENT for Faculty in Economics Doctoral Programs U-M LSA Department of Economics. 2020-08-02. lsa.umich.edu. en.
- Web site: Watch These People in 2018. 2017-11-30. www.bloomberg.com. 2019-01-03.
- Web site: October 21, 2022 . Martha J. Bailey Receives the 2022 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award . American Economic Association.
- Web site: Martha J. Bailey IZA - Institute of Labor Economics. www.iza.org. 2019-01-03.
