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Martha J. Bailey

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics

8283 Bunche Hall

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1477

United States

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1.

More Power to the Pill: The Impact of Contraceptive Freedom on Women's Labor-Force Participation

Vanderbilt University Economics Working Paper No. 04-WG01R
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 24 Jan 2005
Martha J. Bailey
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics
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birth control, participation, labor supply, pill, women

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 No. 10933
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 13 Feb 2024
Martha J. Bailey, Tanya Byker, Elena Patel and Shanthi Ramnath
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics, Middlebury College - Department of Economics, Brookings Institution - Economic Studies Program and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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gender wage gap, maternity leave

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16756
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 30 Jan 2024
Martha J. Bailey, Tanya Byker, Elena Patel and Shanthi Ramnath
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics, Middlebury College - Department of Economics, Brookings Institution - Economic Studies Program and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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gender gap, leave taking, gender, maternity leave, labor market, regression discontinuity

The Long-Term Effects of California's 2004 Paid Family Leave Act on Women's Careers: Evidence from U.S. Tax Data

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14217
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 14 Jan 2020
Martha J. Bailey, Tanya Byker, Elena Patel and Shanthi Ramnath
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics, Middlebury College - Department of Economics, Brookings Institution - Economic Studies Program and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Downloads 56 (1,017,159)
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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

NBER Working Paper No. w26416
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 30 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2023
Martha J. Bailey, Tanya Byker, Elena Patel and Shanthi Ramnath
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics, Middlebury College - Department of Economics, Brookings Institution - Economic Studies Program and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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Does Family Planning Increase Children’s Opportunities? Evidence from the War on Poverty and the Early Years of Title X

US Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies Paper No. CES-WP-16-29
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 19 Jun 2016
Martha J. Bailey, Olga Malkova and Zoe McLaren
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics, University of California, Irvine - Department of Economics and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - School of Public Health
Downloads 192 (395,523)
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Gains and Gaps: Changing Inequality in U.S. College Entry and Completion

NBER Working Paper No. w17633
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 03 Dec 2011 Last Revised: 08 Mar 2023
Martha J. Bailey, Susan M. Dynarski and Susan M. Dynarski
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
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How Well Do Automated Linking Methods Perform? Lessons from U.S. Historical Data

NBER Working Paper No. w24019
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 20 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 06 May 2026
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Institute for Social Research
Downloads 132 (551,165)
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How the 1963 Equal Pay Act and 1964 Civil Rights Act Shaped the Gender Gap in Pay

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16700
Number of pages: 104 Posted: 04 Jan 2024
Martha J. Bailey, Thomas Helgerman and Bryan Stuart
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics, University of Minnesota - Minneapolis and Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
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Civil Rights Act, Equal Pay Act, gender gap

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The Opt-In Revolution? Contraception and the Gender Gap in Wages

NBER Working Paper No. w17922
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 23 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 22 Jun 2023
Martha J. Bailey, Brad Hershbein and Amalia R. Miller
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research and University of Virginia - Department of Economics
Downloads 82 (790,029)
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The Evolution of U.S. Educational Mobility over the 20th Century and the Role of Public Education

FRB Atlanta Working Paper No. 2026-1
Number of pages: 81 Posted: 21 Jan 2026
Martha J. Bailey, Shariq Mohammed and Paul Mohnen
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics, Northeastern University and Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
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education, inequality, intergenerational mobility

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Is There A Case for a "Second Demographic Transition"? Three Distinctive Features of the Post-1960 U.S. Fertility Decline

NBER Working Paper No. w19599
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 01 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2023
Martha J. Bailey, Melanie Guldi and Brad Hershbein
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics, University of Central Florida - College of Business Administration - Department of Economics and W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Downloads 72 (860,052)
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The Wage Gains of African-American Women in the 1940s

NBER Working Paper No. w10621
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 29 Sep 2006 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2022
William J. Collins and Martha J. Bailey
Vanderbilt University - College of Arts and Science - Department of Economics and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics
Downloads 71 (867,774)
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The Economic Impact of a High National Minimum Wage: Evidence from the 1966 Fair Labor Standards Act

NBER Working Paper No. w26926
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 06 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 27 Jan 2023
Martha J. Bailey, Thomas Juster and Bryan A. Stuart
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics, University of Oxford and George Washington University - Department of Economics
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Is the Social Safety Net a Long-Term Investment? Large-Scale Evidence from the Food Stamps Program

NBER Working Paper No. w26942
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 06 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 12 Feb 2023
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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How Johnson Fought the War on Poverty: The Economics and Politics of Funding at the Office of Economic Opportunity

NBER Working Paper No. w19860
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 27 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 08 Apr 2023
Martha J. Bailey and Nicolas Duquette
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
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The War on Poverty's Experiment in Public Medicine: Community Health Centers and the Mortality of Older Americans

NBER Working Paper No. w20653
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 03 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 08 Jun 2023
Martha J. Bailey and Andrew Goodman-Bacon
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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Breathing New Life into Death Certificates: Extracting Cause of Death from Handwritten Records

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 07 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 31 Jan 2023
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Brigham Young University, University of Minnesota - Minneapolis, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Medical School and University of Michigan School of Social Work
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death certificate, semi-automated classification, cause of death

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"Momma's Got the Pill": How Anthony Comstock and Griswold V. Connecticut Shaped U.S. Childbearing

NBER Working Paper No. w14675
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 25 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2022
Martha J. Bailey
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics
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Access and Use of Contraception and Its Effects on Women’s Outcomes in the U.S

NBER Working Paper No. w23465
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 05 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 12 Feb 2023
Martha J. Bailey and Jason M. Lindo
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics and Texas A&M University
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Did Improvements in Household Technology Cause the Baby Boom? Evidence from Electrification, Appliance Diffusion, and the Amish

NBER Working Paper No. w14641
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 15 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2023
Martha J. Bailey and William J. Collins
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics and Vanderbilt University - College of Arts and Science - Department of Economics
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Fifty Years of Family Planning: New Evidence on the Long-Run Effects of Increasing Access to Contraception

NBER Working Paper No. w19493
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 05 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 07 Apr 2023
Martha J. Bailey
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics
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Does Parents’ Access to Family Planning Increase Children’s Opportunities? Evidence from the War on Poverty and the Early Years of Title X

NBER Working Paper No. w23971
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 30 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 02 Jul 2023
Martha J. Bailey, Olga Malkova and Zoë McLaren
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics, University of California, Irvine - Department of Economics and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Downloads 43 (1,145,425)
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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 Paper No. w17343
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 24 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 22 May 2023
Martha J. Bailey
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics
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