Martha J. Bailey

Affiliated Programs:

Michigan Historical Demography Workshop

Funded Research:

Community Care for All? Health Centers' Impact on Access to Care and Health (NICHD)

Understanding the Longterm Effects of Breastfeeding on Children’s Life Chances (Mueller)

Have U.S. Family Planning Programs Improved the Economic Circumstances of Children? (SAMHSA)

Neighborhood Health Centers and Use of Care under the War on Poverty (NIA)

An American Experiment in Public Medicine: Community Health Centers and Mortality under the War on Poverty (ASPE)

Documenting the War on Poverty's Community Programs (NICHD)

Summer Support for Students (Mueller)

Exploring the Determinants of Changes in 20th Century North American Childbearing (PSC-Ford Funds)

Family Planning Programs and the Health and Fertility of US Women, 1960-1980 (NICHD)

Ph.D., Vanderbilt University

Dr. Bailey is an assistant professor in the department of economics and a research affiliate at the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her work has examined the importance of changes in contraceptive technology for women’s childbearing and career decisions and the determinants of the U.S. baby boom. Her most recent projects focus on evaluating the shorter and longer-term effects of federal programs under the War on Poverty.

Recent Publications

Journal Articles

Bailey, Martha J., Brad Hershbein, and A. Miller. 2012. "The Opt-In Revolution? Contraception and the Gender Gap in Wages." American Economic Journal-Applied Economics, 4(3): 225-254. NIHMSID: NIHMS449365. DOI. Abstract.

Bailey, Martha J. 2012. "Reexamining the Impact of Family Planning Programs on US Fertility: Evidence from the War on Poverty and the Early Years of Title X." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 4(2): 62-97. PMCID: PMC3348617. DOI. Abstract.

Bailey, Martha J., and William J. Collins. 2011. "Did Improvements in Household Technology Cause the Baby Boom? Evidence from Electrification, Appliance Diffusion, and the Amish." American Economic Journal-Macroeconomics, 3(2): 189-217. DOI. Abstract.

Bailey, Martha J. 2010. "Momma's Got the Pill: How Anthony Comstock and Griswold v. Connecticut Shaped U.S Childbearing." American Economic Review, 100(1): 98-129. DOI. Abstract.

Chapters

Bailey, Martha J., and Susan M. Dynarski. 2011. "Educational expectations and attainment." In Whither Opportunity? Rising Inequality, Schools, and Children's Life Chances edited by Duncan, Greg J. and Richard Murane. New York : Russell Sage Foundation.

PSC Reports

Bailey, Martha J., and Susan Dynarski. 2011. "Gains and Gaps: Changing Inequality in U.S. College Entry and Completion." PSC Research Report No. 11-746. December 2011. Abstract. PDF.

Bailey, Martha J. 2011. "Reexamining the Impact of Family Planning Programs on U.S. Fertility: Evidence from the War on Poverty and the Early Years of Title X." PSC Research Report No. 11-744. August 2011. Abstract. PDF.

Other Reports

Bailey, Martha J. 2009. "Momma's Got the Pill: How Anthony Comstock and Griswold v. Connecticut Shaped U.S Childbearing." NBER Working Paper 14675. Abstract. Public Access.

Bailey, Martha J., and William Collins. 2009. "Did Improvements in Household Technology Cause the Baby Boom? Evidence from Electrification, Appliance Diffusion, and the Amish." NBER Working Paper 14641. Abstract. Public Access.

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