Martha Bailey

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Martha J. Bailey
Children2
Academic career
Institutions University of California, Los Angeles
University of Michigan
Field Economics
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]

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References

  1. "American Economic Association". www.aeaweb.org. Retrieved 2019-01-03.
  2. "Bailey Assumes the Directorship of CeMENT for Faculty in Economics Doctoral Programs | U-M LSA Department of Economics". lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
  3. "Watch These People in 2018". www.bloomberg.com. 2017-11-30. Retrieved 2019-01-03.
  4. "Martha J. Bailey Receives the 2022 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award". American Economic Association. October 21, 2022.
  5. "Martha J. Bailey | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics". www.iza.org. Retrieved 2019-01-03.