[3] In 2021, when the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health Organization case, she led an effort to compile the best economic research on the impact of abortion access on women's lives into an amicus brief, which was signed by more than 150 economists.
[4] Myers grew up in rural West Virginia and Georgia and trained as a labor economist,[4] receiving her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 2005.
Her research demonstrates that the liberalization of abortion policies in the 1960s and 1970s allowed large numbers of women to delay marriage and motherhood.
[8] She also has studied the effects of mandatory waiting periods,[9] parental involvement laws,[10] and driving distances on abortion and birth rates.
[12] Her work on the changing influence of education on women's age at motherhood[13][14] and the impact of abortion access on birth rates is featured in the media.