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Martha J. Bailey

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First Name:Martha
Middle Name:J.
Last Name:Bailey
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RePEc Short-ID:pba669
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https://sites.google.com/g.ucla.edu/marthajbailey/
Bluesky: @marthajbailey.bsky.social
Terminal Degree:2005 Department of Economics; Vanderbilt University (from RePEc Genealogy)

Affiliation

(17%) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
http://www.nber.org/
RePEc:edi:nberrus (more details at EDIRC)

(83%) Department of Economics
University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)

Los Angeles, California (United States)
http://www.econ.ucla.edu/
RePEc:edi:deuclus (more details at EDIRC)

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Working papers

  1. Martha Bailey & Tanya Byker & Elena Patel & Shanthi Ramnath & Martha J. Bailey, 2024. "The Long-Run Effects of California’s Paid Family Leave Act on Women’s Careers and Childbearing: New Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design and U.S. Tax Data," CESifo Working Paper Series 10933, CESifo.
  2. Bailey, Martha J. & Byker, Tanya & Patel, Elena & Ramnath, Shanti, 2024. "The Long-Run Effects of California’s Paid Family Leave Act on Women’s Careers and Childbearing," CEPR Discussion Papers 18833, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  3. Bailey, Martha J. & Helgerman, Thomas & Stuart, Bryan Andrew, 2023. "How the 1963 Equal Pay Act and 1964 Civil Rights Act Shaped the Gender Gap in Pay," IZA Discussion Papers 16700, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
  4. Martha J. Bailey & Vanessa Wanner Lang & Alexa Prettyman & Iris Vrioni & Lea J. Bart & Daniel Eisenberg & Paula Fomby & Jennifer Barber & Vanessa Dalton, 2023. "How Costs Limit Contraceptive Use among Low-Income Women in the U.S.: A Randomized Control Trial," NBER Working Papers 31397, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  5. Martha J. Bailey & Lea J. Bart & Vanessa Wanner Lang, 2022. "The Missing Baby Bust: The Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Contraceptive Use, Pregnancy, and Childbirth among Low-Income Women," NBER Working Papers 29722, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  6. Bailey, Martha J. & Currie, Janet & Schwandt, Hannes, 2022. "The COVID-19 Baby Bump: The Unexpected Increase in U.S. Fertility Rates in Response to the Pandemic," IZA Discussion Papers 15703, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
  7. Martha Bailey & Shuqiao Sun & Brenden Timpe, 2021. "Prep School for Poor Kids: The Long-Run Impacts of Head Start on Human Capital and Economic Self-Sufficiency," Working Papers 2021-031, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group.
  8. Martha J. Bailey & John DiNardo & Bryan A. Stuart, 2020. "The Economic Impact of a High National Minimum Wage: Evidence from the 1966 Fair Labor Standards Act," NBER Working Papers 26926, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  9. Martha J. Bailey & Hilary W. Hoynes & Maya Rossin-Slater & Reed Walker, 2020. "Is the Social Safety Net a Long-Term Investment? Large-Scale Evidence from the Food Stamps Program," NBER Working Papers 26942, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  10. Bailey, Martha J. & Byker, Tanya & Patel, Elena & Ramnath, Shanthi, 2019. "The Long-Term Effects of California’s 2004 Paid Family Leave Act on Women’s Careers: Evidence from U.S. Tax Data," CEPR Discussion Papers 14217, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  11. Martha J. Bailey & Olga Malkova & Zoe M. McLaren, 2017. "Does Parents’ Access To Family Planning Increase Children’S Opportunities? Evidence From The War On Poverty And The Early Years Of Title X," Working Papers 17-67, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.
  12. Martha J. Bailey & Jason M. Lindo, 2017. "Access and Use of Contraception and Its Effects on Women’s Outcomes in the U.S," NBER Working Papers 23465, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  13. Martha Bailey & Connor Cole & Morgan Henderson & Catherine Massey, 2017. "How Well Do Automated Linking Methods Perform? Lessons from U.S. Historical Data," NBER Working Papers 24019, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  14. Evan J. Taylor & Bryan A. Stuart & Martha J. Bailey, 2016. "Summary of Procedure to Match NUMIDENT Place of Birth County to GNIS Places," CES Technical Notes Series 16-01, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.
  15. Martha J. Bailey & Olga Malkova & Zoë M. McLaren, 2016. "Does Family Planning Increase Children’S Opportunities? Evidence From The War On Poverty And The Early Years Of Title X," Working Papers 16-29, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.
  16. Martha Bailey & Olga Malkova & Zoë Mclaren, 2016. "Does Family Planning Increase Children's Opportunities? Evidence from the War on Poverty and the Title X," Working Papers hal-03459203, HAL.
  17. Martha J. Bailey & Andrew Goodman-Bacon, 2014. "The War on Poverty's Experiment in Public Medicine: Community Health Centers and the Mortality of Older Americans," NBER Working Papers 20653, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  18. Martha J. Bailey & Nicolas J. Duquette, 2014. "How Johnson Fought the War on Poverty: The Economics and Politics of Funding at the Office of Economic Opportunity," NBER Working Papers 19860, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  19. Martha J. Bailey, 2014. "Fifty Years Of Family Planning: New Evidence On The Long-Run Effects Of Increasing Access To Contraception," Working Papers 14-15, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.
  20. Martha J. Bailey & Melanie E. Guldi & Brad J. Hershbein, 2013. "Is There A Case for a "Second Demographic Transition"? Three Distinctive Features of the Post-1960 U.S. Fertility Decline," NBER Working Papers 19599, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  21. Martha J. Bailey & Brad Hershbein & Amalia R. Miller, 2012. "The Opt-In Revolution? Contraception and the Gender Gap in Wages," NBER Working Papers 17922, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  22. Martha J. Bailey & Susan M. Dynarski, 2011. "Gains and Gaps: Changing Inequality in U.S. College Entry and Completion," NBER Working Papers 17633, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  23. Martha J. Bailey, 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," NBER Working Papers 17343, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  24. Martha J. Bailey & William J. Collins, 2009. "Did Improvements in Household Technology Cause the Baby Boom? Evidence from Electrification, Appliance Diffusion, and the Amish," NBER Working Papers 14641, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  25. Martha J. Bailey, 2009. ""Momma's Got the Pill": How Anthony Comstock and Griswold v. Connecticut Shaped U.S. Childbearing," NBER Working Papers 14675, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  26. Martha J. Bailey & William J. Collins, 2004. "The Wage Gains of African-American Women in the 1940s," NBER Working Papers 10621, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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Articles

  1. Martha J Bailey & Hilary Hoynes & Maya Rossin-Slater & Reed Walker, 2024. "Is the Social Safety Net a Long-Term Investment? Large-Scale Evidence From the Food Stamps Program," The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 91(3), pages 1291-1330.
  2. Martha J Bailey & Thomas Helgerman & Bryan A Stuart, 2024. "How the 1963 Equal Pay Act and 1964 Civil Rights Act Shaped the Gender Gap in Pay," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 139(3), pages 1827-1878.
  3. Martha J. Bailey & Lea Bart & Alexa Prettyman & Vanessa Wanner Lang & Vanessa Dalton, 2024. "Who Is Financially Constrained in Their Choice of Contraceptive Method? Lessons from M-CARES," AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, vol. 114, pages 442-448, May.
  4. Martha Bailey & Peter Z. Lin & A. R. Shariq Mohammed & Paul Mohnen & Jared Murray & Mengying Zhang & Alexa Prettyman, 2023. "The creation of LIFE-M: The Longitudinal, Intergenerational Family Electronic Micro-Database project," Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 56(3), pages 138-159, July.
  5. Bailey, Martha J. & Leonard, Susan H. & Price, Joseph & Roberts, Evan & Spector, Logan & Zhang, Mengying, 2023. "Breathing new life into death certificates: Extracting handwritten cause of death in the LIFE-M project," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 87(C).
  6. Martha J. Bailey & Lea Bart & Vanessa Wanner Lang, 2022. "The Missing Baby Bust: The Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Contraceptive Use, Pregnancy, and Childbirth Among Low-Income Women," Population Research and Policy Review, Springer;Southern Demographic Association (SDA), vol. 41(4), pages 1549-1569, August.
  7. Bailey, Martha J., 2022. "Economic opportunity begins with contraception: Comment on “Intergenerational Mobility Begins Before Birth” by Ananth Seshadri, Anson Zhou," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 129(C), pages 21-23.
  8. Martha J. Bailey & Emily A. Beam & Anna Wentz, 2021. "Does younger age at marriage affect divorce? Evidence from Johnson's Executive Order 11241," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 59(3), pages 1328-1345, July.
  9. Martha J. Bailey & Shuqiao Sun & Brenden Timpe, 2021. "Prep School for Poor Kids: The Long-Run Impacts of Head Start on Human Capital and Economic Self-Sufficiency," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 111(12), pages 3963-4001, December.
  10. Martha J. Bailey & Thomas Helgerman & Bryan A. Stuart, 2021. "Changes in the US Gender Gap in Wages in the 1960s," AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, vol. 111, pages 143-148, May.
  11. Martha J. Bailey & John DiNardo & Bryan A. Stuart, 2021. "The Economic Impact of a High National Minimum Wage: Evidence from the 1966 Fair Labor Standards Act," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 39(S2), pages 329-367.
  12. Martha Bailey, 2020. "Equal opportunities begin with contraception," Nature, Nature, vol. 588(7838), pages 177-177, December.
  13. Martha J. Bailey & Connor Cole & Morgan Henderson & Catherine Massey, 2020. "How Well Do Automated Linking Methods Perform? Lessons from US Historical Data," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 58(4), pages 997-1044, December.
  14. Martha J. Bailey & Eric Chyn, 2020. "The Demographic Effects of Dodging the Vietnam Draft," AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, vol. 110, pages 220-225, May.
  15. Martha Bailey & Connor Cole & Catherine Massey, 2020. "Simple strategies for improving inference with linked data: a case study of the 1850–1930 IPUMS linked representative historical samples," Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 53(2), pages 80-93, April.
  16. Martha J. Bailey & Olga Malkova & Zoë M. McLaren, 2019. "Does Access to Family Planning Increase Children’s Opportunities?: Evidence from the War on Poverty and the Early Years of Title X," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 54(4), pages 825-856.
  17. Martha J. Bailey & Andrew Goodman-Bacon, 2015. "The War on Poverty's Experiment in Public Medicine: Community Health Centers and the Mortality of Older Americans," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 105(3), pages 1067-1104, March.
  18. Bailey, Martha J. & Duquette, Nicolas J., 2014. "How Johnson Fought the War on Poverty: The Economics and Politics of Funding at the Office of Economic Opportunity," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 74(2), pages 351-388, June.
  19. Martha J. Bailey & Olga Malkova & Johannes Norling, 2014. "Do Family Planning Programs Decrease Poverty? Evidence from Public Census Data," CESifo Economic Studies, CESifo Group, vol. 60(2), pages 312-337.
  20. Martha J. Bailey & Melanie Guldi & Brad J. Hershbein, 2013. "Recent Evidence On The Broad Benefits Of Reproductive Health Policy," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 32(4), pages 888-896, September.
  21. Martha J. Bailey & Melanie Guldi & Brad J. Hershbein, 2013. "Further Evidence On The Internal Validity Of The Early Legal Access Research Design," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 32(4), pages 899-904, September.
  22. Martha J. Bailey, 2013. "Fifty Years of Family Planning: New Evidence on the Long-Run Effects of Increasing Access to Contraception," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 44(1 (Spring), pages 341-409.
  23. Martha J. Bailey, 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, American Economic Association, vol. 4(2), pages 62-97, April.
  24. Martha J. Bailey & Brad Hershbein & Amalia R. Miller, 2012. "The Opt-In Revolution? Contraception and the Gender Gap in Wages," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, vol. 4(3), pages 225-254, July.
  25. Bailey, Martha J., 2011. "The War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America. By Marisa Chappell. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. Pp. 352. $45.00, cloth," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 71(1), pages 252-254, March.
  26. Martha J. Bailey & 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, American Economic Association, vol. 3(2), pages 189-217, April.
  27. Martha J. Bailey, 2010. ""Momma's Got the Pill": How Anthony Comstock and Griswold v. Connecticut Shaped US Childbearing," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 100(1), pages 98-129, March.
  28. Martha J. Bailey, 2006. "More Power to the Pill: The Impact of Contraceptive Freedom on Women's Life Cycle Labor Supply," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 121(1), pages 289-320.
  29. Bailey, Martha J. & Collins, William J., 2006. "The Wage Gains of African-American Women in the 1940s," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 66(3), pages 737-777, September.

Chapters

  1. Martha J. Bailey & Leah Platt Boustan & William J. Collins, 2024. "Introduction to "The Economic History of American Inequality: New Evidence and Perspectives"," NBER Chapters, in: The Economic History of American Inequality: New Evidence and Perspectives, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. Martha J. Bailey & Peter Z. Lin, 2024. "Marital Matching and Women’s Intergenerational Mobility in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century US," NBER Chapters, in: The Economic History of American Inequality: New Evidence and Perspectives, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  3. Martha J. Bailey & Melanie Guldi & Brad J. Hershbein, 2014. "Is There a Case for a "Second Demographic Transition"? Three Distinctive Features of the Post-1960 U.S. Fertility Decline," NBER Chapters, in: Human Capital in History: The American Record, pages 273-312, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

Books

  1. Bailey, Martha J. & Boustan, Leah Platt & Collins, William J. (ed.), 2025. "The Economic History of American Inequality," National Bureau of Economic Research Books, University of Chicago Press, edition 1, number 9780226840642, March.

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NEP is an announcement service for new working papers, with a weekly report in each of many fields. This author has had 29 papers announced in NEP. These are the fields, ordered by number of announcements, along with their dates. If the author is listed in the directory of specialists for this field, a link is also provided.
  1. NEP-LAB: Labour Economics (14) 2004-07-18 2004-12-12 2011-12-13 2012-04-03 2017-06-11 2017-12-11 2019-11-04 2022-03-07 2022-11-07 2022-11-14 2022-12-12 2023-07-17 2024-03-04 2024-03-25. Author is listed
  2. NEP-HIS: Business, Economic and Financial History (11) 2004-07-18 2004-12-12 2009-01-17 2009-01-31 2013-10-11 2013-11-09 2014-02-02 2017-12-11 2020-04-20 2023-07-17 2024-02-12. Author is listed
  3. NEP-DEM: Demographic Economics (9) 2011-08-29 2012-04-03 2013-10-11 2017-12-11 2019-11-04 2020-08-10 2022-03-07 2022-11-07 2024-03-04. Author is listed
  4. NEP-HEA: Health Economics (4) 2014-12-08 2017-06-11 2022-03-07 2023-07-31
  5. NEP-GEN: Gender (3) 2023-07-17 2024-02-12 2024-03-04
  6. NEP-LMA: Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages (3) 2012-04-03 2020-04-20 2024-02-12
  7. NEP-DES: Economic Design (2) 2024-03-04 2024-03-25
  8. NEP-URE: Urban and Real Estate Economics (2) 2021-02-01 2021-07-12
  9. NEP-AGE: Economics of Ageing (1) 2014-12-08
  10. NEP-AGR: Agricultural Economics (1) 2020-04-20
  11. NEP-BIG: Big Data (1) 2018-01-22
  12. NEP-ENE: Energy Economics (1) 2009-01-17
  13. NEP-INV: Investment (1) 2024-03-04
  14. NEP-MAC: Macroeconomics (1) 2009-01-17
  15. NEP-PAY: Payment Systems and Financial Technology (1) 2018-01-22
  16. NEP-PKE: Post Keynesian Economics (1) 2014-02-02

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