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

Contact information

 

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, vol. 121 (1), February 2006, 289-320.

SSRN Working Paper, July 2005.

Erratum, September 2009. [Stata code]

 

"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," American Economic Review, forthcoming.

 

NBER Working Paper Number 14675, January 2009.

Additional estimates, January 2009.

Details on the legal coding (with Allie Davido), January 2009.

Scans of statutes (broken down into state groups): AL-AZ, AR-CT, DE-GA, HI-IN, IA-ME, MD-MN, MS-MT, ND-OR, NE-NV, NH-NC, PA-TN, TX-WY

Stata code and datasets [coming soon]

 

 

"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; revised June 2009 (under review).

 

 

 

Work in Progress

"Early Legal Access: Appendix Describing Laws and Policies Governing Contraceptive Access, 1960-1980" (with Melanie Guldi), January 2009.

 

"The Opt-In Revolution: Contraception, Women's Labor-Supply and the Gender Gap in Wages" (with Brad J. Hershbein and Amalia Miller), September 2009.

 

"The Impact of U.S. Family Planning Programs: Evidence from the War on Poverty and Title X," September 2009.

 

"Who Responds to Medical Information? The Implications of Changing Selection into Breastfeeding, 1925-2000" (with Radha Iyengar), May 2008.

 

"How America Avoided the Draft: The Demographic Legacy of Vietnam" (with Emily Beam).

 

"Racial and Gender Gaps in College Attainment: An Historical Perspective" (with Susan Dynarski).

 

"The Impact of the Pill on Completed Childbearing," (with Emily Gray Collins).

 

"The Impact of Community Health Centers on Infant and Child Health: Evidence from the War on Poverty" (with Andrew Goodman-Bacon).