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
Email: baileymj@umich.edu
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Curriculum Vitae [Download *.pdf]
Research
"More Power to the Pill: The Impact of Contraceptive Freedom on Women's Lifecycle Labor Supply," Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 121 (1), February 2006, 289-320.
"Women's economic advancement in the twentieth century United States," Journal of Economic History, vol. 66 (2), June 2006, 480-486.
"The wage gains of African-American women in the 1940s" (with William J. Collins), NBER Working Paper Number 10621, October 2005; Journal of Economic History, vol. 66 (3), September 2006, 737-777.
"Momma's Got the Pill: How Anthony Comstock and Griswold v. Connecticut Shaped U.S. Childbearing," June 2008, revision submitted to the AER.
	Details on the legal coding (with Allie Davido), March 2008.
"Household Production Technology and the American Baby Boom" (with William J. Collins), July 2008.
Work in Progress
"The Impact of Family Planning on the Health and Well-Being of U.S Women and Children: Evidence from the War on Poverty Programs" (with Nzinga Broussard), May 2008, supported by the University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research, the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan, and the Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Program at the University of Michigan. "Who Responds to Medical Information? The Implications of Changing Selection into Breastfeeding, 1950-2000" (with Radha Iyengar), May 2008. "Peer Effects and Adolescent Substance Use: Evidence from the Middle School Movement" (with Daniel Eisenberg), May 2008.
"From the Baby Boom to Sex in the City: Contraception and Women's Career Mobility in the NLSYW" (with Amalia Miller).
"Changes in the Age of Legal Consent for the Birth Control Pill" (with Melanie Guldi).