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]

• Bailey, Martha J. "More power to the pill: the impact of contraceptive freedom on women's life cycle labor supply." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 121, no. 1 (2006): 289–320.
• Bailey, Martha, and Susan M. Dynarski. "Inequality in postsecondary attainment." (2011).
• Bailey, Martha J. "Momma's got the pill": how Anthony Comstock and Griswold v. Connecticut shaped US childbearing." American Economic Review 100, no. 1 (2010): 98-129.
• Bailey, Martha J., Brad Hershbein, and Amalia R. Miller. "The opt-in revolution? Contraception and the gender gap in wages." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 4, no. 3 (2012): 225–54.
• Bailey, Martha J. "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, no. 2 (2012): 62–97.

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