Martha J. Bailey | |
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| Children | 2 |
| Academic career | |
| Field | Economics |
| Institutions | University of California, Los Angeles University of Michigan |
| Alma mater | Vanderbilt University, PhD Agnes Scott College, BA |
| Doctoral advisor | William J. Collins |
| Awards | Carolyn Shaw Bell Award (2022) |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
| Website | https://sites.google.com/g.ucla.edu/marthajbailey |
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]