Martha Bailey


Martha J. Bailey is a Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan, where she was the first woman internally promoted to tenure in that department. 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. 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."
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.

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