Martha Bailey

Call for papers for spring SOLE meeting (4/30-5/1 in Baltimore) now open! Last year's conference, organized by Sandy Black and Jesse Rothstein, was a huge success and I'm looking forward to serving on program committee again. Send us your great work (by 10/31): www.sole-jole.org/upcoming-mee...

Great piece by @alisongemmill.bsky.social for @prbdata.bsky.social explaining what’s really going on with contemporary US birth rates.

Head Start turned 61 this week! 🎂 The entire War on Poverty, and Head Start in particular, was a massive feat of policymaking and implementation in such a short time. When the first Head Start grant recipients were announced in May 1965 (to begin that summer!), LBJ heralded the accomplishment.

CCPR at #PAA2026 - See Affiliate Alison Gemmill

CCPR at #PAA2026 - See Affiliate Alison Gemmill

CCPR at #PAA2026 - Up Next Affiliates Martha Bailey Emilia Brio, and Giulia Olivero!

28/ Thanks to @upshot.nytimes.com author @clairecm.bsky.social & demographers @karenguzzo.bsky.social @alisongemmill.bsky.social @philipncohen.com & @marthajbailey.bsky.social who contributed their expertise to that piece & continue to do Yeoman's work on this topic. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...

Pat Buchanan called the Pill "the suicide tablet of the West" (don't know if that made it into the doc)

There are reasons to believe the record-low U.S. birthrate could be only temporary as today’s young women postpone pregnancy. Several PAA Members featured in @nytimes.com piece: buff.ly/848YtKB @karenguzzo.bsky.social @philipncohen.com @alisongemmill.bsky.social @marthajbailey.bsky.social

CCPR Director Martha Bailey discusses how the declining U.S. fertility rate could still reverse course with the New York Times. @marthajbailey.bsky.social #UCLA #CCPR

Corrected link: www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/ho... He tolerated me after discovering how inured I am to extrinsic motivation, to his extreme credit (speaking to how generally wonderful he was to his student)

Congratulations to my @BU_Tweets colleague Bob Margo, newly elected AEA Distinguished Fellow. A superb scholar and a fantastic mentor, very well deserved! aeaweb.org/about-aea/hono

I am excited to organize this conference with Yana Gallen. Please submit, repost, and also circulate to your networks.

What often gets missed in stories about declining birth rates is that they're due to declines specifically among young women. Young women are exercising reproductive autonomy and are making considered decisions about whether and when to have children. This is a good thing.

Glad to have been interviewed for this piece, along with @kaseybuckles.bsky.social @marthajbailey.bsky.social, and @econmsk.bsky.social. And be sure to check out the companion piece!

U.S. birth rates have been declining, but #CCPR Director @marthajbailey.bsky.social finds that there has been no drop in the number of children born over the last 30 years. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...

Find #CCPR Director @marthajbailey.bsky.social paper here: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Happy to have contributed to this along w/ @karenguzzo.bsky.social @marthajbailey.bsky.social & Melissa Kearney. My favorite from Karen: “We spent decades shaming women 4 having kids under the wrong circumstances, 4 not having their ducks in a row. Now they are holding up their end of the bargain.”

📢 Call for Papers: 2026 Reproduction of Society Conference How do contraception, fertility preferences, and policy design shape the modern fertility decline? Submit your paper by April 3, 2026. Learn more: https://ow.ly/1brw50YkvFY

1/Universities need to systematically address the findings in the Epstein files. In my opinion, every university in which current or past faculty, administrators, trustees appear in the files, should establish formal bodies to review and assess. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

More job ops 👇

I am excited to be hiring two post-doctoral positions at UCLA--please share with your networks. www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.....

This week CCPR's seminar series will feature @philipncohen.com discussing his book, "Research is Not Enough: Public Engagement and the Citizen Scholar." Join us on January 14 @12pm in Public Affairs 337.

I need to take a cue from @philipncohen.com and do more to disseminate my academic research on the determinants of fertility. I am looking forward to his book talk on Wednesday at @ccpratucla.bsky.social .

Hey, I'm going to UCLA next week! Two events Wednesday, 14 Jan. at the California Center for Population Research: 1. A talk on my book, Citizen Scholar (ccpr.ucla.edu/event/philip...) 2. A discussion on a book talk by Michael Geruso on “After the Spike." ccpr.ucla.edu/event/michae... #demography

CCPR is excited to host @mikegeruso.bsky.social to discuss his book, After the Spike, Wednesday, Jan 11 @6pm, in UCLA's 314 Royce Hall. Comments by CCPR Director @marthajbailey.bsky.social & @philipncohen.com. Reception to follow. RSVP here: eventsrsvp.ucla.edu/CCPRLecture2...

The Quiet Collapse of America’s Reproductive Health Safety Net kffhealthnews.org/MjEwNjQwMQ by @celinegounder.com via @kffhealthnews.org CC: @marthajbailey.bsky.social @whitneysrice.bsky.social @rachelfey.bsky.social @bthomas520.bsky.social @megankavanaugh.bsky.social

Subsidizing contraception has large and persistent effects on the choice of contraceptive method, resulting in significantly fewer pregnancies and abortions in the US, from @marthajbailey.bsky.social, Rebolledo, Gorgulu, Figone, Lang, Prettyman, and Dalton www.nber.org/papers/w34400

People magazine has an exclusive excerpt of my book today, one week and one day until pub!! people.com/why-women-ca...

I signed an open letter from economists supporting Fed independence & Governor Lisa Cook Letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Add your name by Monday: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I signed an open letter from economists supporting Fed independence & Gov. Lisa Cook. Add your name by Monday: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... | Letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

📢Call for paper for #AlpPop 2026 is out with awesome #skinotes confirmed @marthajbailey.bsky.social and Arnout Van De Rijt. Please send your paper bocconi.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6t… by September 21.

A growing body of research suggests reproductive health care has intergenerational effects on the well-being of children, from @marthajbailey.bsky.social https://www.nber.org/papers/w33970

Interesting review paper by @marthajbailey.bsky.social on fertility drive.google.com/file/d/1smVT...

Please join CCPR for our 2025 Reception at PAA at 6:00 PM EST at the Marriott Marquis, BeerLab (901 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC). This event is hosted by Michigan, UCLA, Washington, Wisconsin-Madison and Brown. #PAA2025 @popassocamerica.bsky.social @um-psc.bsky.social

Congratulations @marthajbailey.bsky.social on winning the 2024 IPUMS CPS Research Award for her paper on how 1963 Equal Pay Act decreased the #GenderGap: tinyurl.com/4uadhx78 @bryanstuart.bsky.social @um-psc.bsky.social @ccpratucla.bsky.social @ipums.bsky.social @qjeharvard.bsky.social #PayEquity

Delighted that this double podcast where I speak with @marthajbailey.bsky.social and @gtwodtke.bsky.social speaks with Natasha Quadlin is now live, where we cover both the progress made in gender inequality in the last 60 years as well as reasons for persisting differences.

Sixty years after equal pay laws and the women’s movement transformed opportunities for women, gender inequality persists in new forms. Today’s episode features @UCLA Professors @marthajbailey.bsky.social and Natasha Quadlin. Listen every other Monday: Website: bit.ly/3YdiCkj

Great piece by @kclausing.bsky.social on how tariffs help shift tax burden to the poor. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

I am opening a postdoc position connected to the FamilyMacro research project at the LSE. This is a one-year position that could be extended for two more years. If interested, please contact me! #EconSky @cfmuk.bsky.social jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

#PacDev2025 will be jointly hosted by UCLA and USC in Los Angeles ☀️😎 Please register to attend ASAP using this link (the deadline to pay the *reduced* rate is coming up soon ⏰): dtspayment.usc.edu/OnlinePaymen...

Fantastic conference organized by my colleagues. 👇Deadline coming up soon!

Holy forking shirt balls "Denial of a wanted abortion has both immediate and lasting effects. It increases a woman’s risk of death by 2.5 p.p within nine months, mainly due to unsafe abortion procedures, and raises the likelihood of carrying the pregnancy to term by 31 p.p. "

Submit now for CSWEP's sessions at the 2026 AEA meetings. Sessions will be on: • Economics of Gender in the Economics Profession • Gender and Climate Justice • Gender, Working from Home and Female Labor Supply • Economic Theory • Global Economy @aeacswep.bsky.social

#Econsky I am excited to announce two new post-doctoral positions at UCLA. One on the m-carestudy.org and the other on the life-m.org project. Please apply! www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

Tracking in US high schools benefits all students: on average, students gain $1000 in earnings. The introduction of AP courses also benefits lower achievement students who do not take AP, presumably through more targeted attention from teachers. #EconSky

Huihuang is a fantastic PhD student and job market candidate from UCLA. And this paper is 🔥

❗6th Summer School in Advanced Economics. ------------------------------------------------- ➡️Where: Spetses Island, Greece. ➡️When: 22-27 June 2025. ▶️ Instructors: Jeff Wooldridge @jmwooldridge.bsky.social and myself, @pedrosantanna.bsky.social We will cover a lot! For more info⤵️

It’s hard to overstate how much people hate inflation—and the lasting scars this recent surge caused. People across the board, even Democrats, mainly blamed the government (see the figure👇). Check the summary 🧵for "Why do we dislike inflation?" here: x.com/S_Stantcheva...