Martha J. Bailey
University of Michigan
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
Research Affiliate, National Poverty Center
Research Affiliate, Population Studies Center
National Bureau of Economic Research, Faculty Research Fellow CESifo, Research Affiliate
Email: baileymj@umich.edu
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Curriculum Vitae [Download *.pdf]
Research Papers
″More Power to the Pill: The Impact of Contraceptive Freedom on Women's Lifecycle Labor Supply,″ Quarterly Journal of Economics, 121 (1), February 2006, 289-320, Working Paper, July 2005, Erratum, August 2009. Featured in the New York Times. ″The Wage Gains of African-American Women in the 1940s″ (with William J. Collins), Journal of Economic History, 66 (3), September 2006: 737-777. ″Momma's Got the Pill: How Anthony Comstock and Griswold v. Connecticut Shaped U.S. Childbearing,″ NBER Working Paper Number 14675, January 2009; American Economic Review, 100 (1), March 2010: 98-129. Additional estimates, January 2009. Details on the legal coding (with Allie Davido), January 2009. Scans of statutes (broken down into groups by states): AL-AZ, AR-CT, DE-GA, HI-IN, IA-ME, MD-MN, MS-MT, ND-OR, NE-NV, NH-NC, PA-TN, TX-WY ″Did Improvements in Household Technology Cause the Baby Boom? Evidence from Electrification, Appliance Diffusion, and the Amish″ (with William J. Collins), NBER Working Paper Number 14641, January 2009; American Economic Journal-Macroeconomics, 3 (2), April 2011: 189-217. ″Inequality in College Entry and Completion″ (with Susan Dynarski). In G. J. Duncan and R. J. Murnane (eds.), Whither Opportunity? Rising Inequality and the Uncertain Life Chances of Low-Income Children. (Russell Sage: New York, New York, September 2011). Featured in the New York Times on 11/16/2011 and 11/24/2011, CNN Money, Inside Higher Ed, and Education Week. ″Reexamining the Impact of U.S. Family Planning Programs on Fertility: Evidence from the War on Poverty and the Early Years of Title X,″ NBER Working Paper Number 17343, August 2011; forthcoming AEJ-Applied Economics. ″The Opt-In Revolution: Contraception and the Gender Gap in Wages″ (with Brad J. Hershbein and Amalia Miller), forthcoming AEJ-Applied Economics. ″Early Legal Access: Laws and Policies Governing Contraceptive Access, 1960-1980″ (with Melanie Guldi, Erin Buzuvis, and Allison Davido), under review. ″The War on Poverty's Experiment in Public Medicine: Community Health Centers and the Mortality of Older Americans″ (with Andrew Goodman-Bacon), under review. In Progress ″The Long-term Effects of Family Planning Programs on Poverty″ (with Zoe McLaren), January 2011. ″How America Avoided the Draft: The Demographic Legacy of Vietnam.″ ″How Contraceptive and Abortion Policy Shaped the Second Demographic Transition″ (with Melanie Guldi and Sayeh Nikpay), January 2011. ″The Long-term Effects of Community Health Centers on Health″ (with Andrew Goodman-Bacon, Mireille Jacobson, Rucker Johnson, and Heather Royer). ″Griswold v. Connecticut and Completed Childbearing″ (with Emily Gray Collins).
″The War on Poverty's Longer-term Implications for Social and Health Spending″ (with M. Marit Rehavi). ″Who Responds to Medical Information? The Implications of Changing Selection into Breastfeeding, 1925-2000″ (with Radha Iyengar).