Martha J. Bailey

University of Michigan

Associate 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

The War on Poverty's Experiment in Public Medicine: Community Health Centers and the Mortality of Older Americans″ (with Andrew Goodman-Bacon), June 2012, revision requested at the American Economic Review.

 

"How the U.S. Fought the War on Poverty: The Politics and Economics of Funding at the Office of Economic Opportunity″ (with Nicolas J. Duquette), June 2012, revision requested at the Journal of Economic History.

 

"Is there a Case for a 'Second Demographic Transition': Three Distinctive Features of the Post-1960 U.S. Fertility Decline" (with Melanie Guldi and Brad J. Hershbein), Human Capital and History: The American Record in honor of Claudia Goldin (Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, forthcoming).

 

"Recent Evidence on the Broader Benefits of Reproductive Health Policy" (with Melanie Guldi and Brad J. Hershbein), Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, forthcoming.

 

Legacies of the War on Poverty (coedited with Sheldon Danziger), (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, forthcoming fall 2013).

 

The Opt-In Revolution: Contraception and the Gender Gap in Wages″ (with Brad J. Hershbein and Amalia Miller), NBER Working Paper Number 17922, March 2012. AEJ-Applied Economics 4 (3), July 2012: 225-54. Featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Yahoo News.

 

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; AEJ-Applied Economics 4 (2), April 2012: 62-97. Fall 2012 Article in U-M's LSA Magazine.

 

Early Legal Access: Laws and Policies Governing Contraceptive Access, 1960-1980(with Melanie Guldi, Erin Buzuvis, and Allison Davido).

 

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 May 2012 NBER Digest and cited in the New York Times on 11/16/2011, 11/24/2011, 2/9/2012, and 12/23/2012; CNN Money, Inside Higher Ed, Education Week, and NACACNet.

 

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. Co-winner of the 2011 Best Published Work using IPUMS-USA data, May 2012.

 

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. Awarded the CESifo Distinguished Research Affiliate Award for Best Paper by an Economist under 35, May 2009.

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

 

The Wage Gains of African-American Women in the 1940s (with William J. Collins), Journal of Economic History, 66 (3), September 2006: 737-777.

 

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 [code]. Featured in the New York Times.

 

In Progress

″The Long-term Effects of Family Planning Programs on Poverty″ (with Zoe McLaren and Olga Malkova).

50 Years of U.S. Family Planning Policy: Lessons and Implications,″ in process for March 2013 Brookings Papers.

"Carnegie's Legacy and the Growth of American Cities: Did Public Libraries Have Any Measurable Effects?″ (with Brian Jacob, Michael Kevane, and William A. Sundstrom).

Fertility. In L. Cain, P. Fishback and P.W. Rhode (eds.), in process for Oxford Handbook of American Economic History.

Who Responds to Medical Information? The Implications of Changing Selection into Breastfeeding, 1925-2000 (with Radha Iyengar).

″How America Avoided the Draft: The Demographic Legacy of Vietnam.″