Martha J. Bailey is a professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles.
[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.
[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.