Martha Bailey
Biographic Data
| ID | 4115013 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martha Bailey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martha |
| FAMILY NAME | Bailey |
| SIGNATURE | BAILEY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7692-6040 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Effects of the Great Depression on Children’s Intergenerational Mobility
This article examines the role of the Great Depression in shaping the intergenerational mobility of some of the most upwardly mobile cohorts of the twentieth century. Using newly linked census and vital records from the Longitudinal, Intergenerational Family Electronic Micro-database, we examine the occupational and educational mobility of more than 265,000 sons and daughters born in Ohio and North Carolina. We find that the deepest and most prot…
The creation of Life-M: The Longitudinal, Intergenerational Family Electronic Micro-Database project
This paper describes the creation of the Longitudinal, Intergenerational Family Electronic Micro-Database (LIFE-M), a new data resource linking vital records and decennial censuses for millions of individuals and families living in the late 19th and 20th centuries in the United States. This combination of records provides a life-course and intergenerational perspective on the evolution of health and economic outcomes. Vital records also enable th…
Breathing new life into death certificates: Extracting handwritten cause of death in the Life-M project
The demographic and epidemiological transitions of the past 200 years are well documented at an aggregate level. Understanding differences in individual and group risks for mortality during these transitions requires linkage between demographic data and detailed individual cause of death information. This paper describes the digitization of almost 185,000 causes of death for Ohio to supplement demographic information in the Longitudinal, Intergen…
The Missing Baby Bust: The Consequences of the Covid-19 Pandemic for Contraceptive Use, Pregnancy, and Childbirth Among Low-Income Women
The Economic Impact of a High National Minimum Wage: Evidence from the 1966 Fair Labor Standards Act
This paper examines the short and longer-term economic effects of the 1966 Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) which increased the national minimum wage to its highest level of the 20th Century and extended coverage to an additional 9.1 million workers. Exploiting differences in the "bite" of the minimum wage due to regional variation in the standard of living and industry composition, this paper finds that the 1966 FLSA increased wages dramatically …
How Well Do Automated Linking Methods Perform? Lessons from US Historical Data
This paper reviews the literature in historical record linkage in the United States and examines the performance of widely used record-linking algorithms and common variations in their assumptions. We use two high-quality, hand-linked data sets and one synthetic ground truth to examine the direct effects of linking algorithms on data quality. We find that (i) no algorithm (including hand linking) consistently produces representative samples; (ii)…
Simple strategies for improving inference with linked data: A case study of the 1850–1930 Ipums linked representative historical samples
New large-scale linked data are revolutionizing quantitative history and demography. This paper proposes two complementary strategies for improving inference with linked historical data: the use of validation variables to identify higher quality links and a simple, regression-based weighting procedure to increase the representativeness of custom research samples. We demonstrate the potential value of these strategies using the 1850-1930 Integrate…
Five Decades of Remarkable but Slowing Change in U.S. Women's Economic and Social Status and Political Participation
The last fifty years of women's social and economic progress have been lauded as the "grand gender convergence," the "second demographic transition," and the "rise of women"-terms pointing to the remarkable transformation in women's social and economic roles since the 1960s. Many metrics document these changes
How Johnson Fought the War on Poverty: The Economics and Politics of Funding at the Office of Economic Opportunity
This article presents a quantitative analysis of the geographic distribution of spending through the 1964 Economic Opportunity Act (EOA). Using newly assembled state- and county-level data, the results show that the Johnson administration directed funding in ways consistent with the War on Poverty's rhetoric of fighting poverty and racial discrimination: poorer areas and those with a greater share of nonwhite residents received systematically mor…
Further Evidence on the Internal Validity of the Early Legal Access Research Design
Randomized controlled experiments are the gold standard of causal analysis, but they are unavailable to answer many questions of policy interest. Access to the Pill or abortion, for instance, was never explicitly randomly assigned, so quasi-experiments provide an important path for understanding their effects
Recent Evidence on the Broad Benefits of Reproductive Health Policy
Gains and Gaps: Changing Inequality in U.S. College Entry and Completion
Polygamy in the Monogamous World: Multicultural Challenges for Western Law and Policy
This fact-filled book on polygamy and plural unions around the world supports an in-depth consideration of policy options for Western countries. Polygamy and plural marriage have become front-and-center issues in Europe, Canada, and the United States, notably on two religious fronts: among some splinter groups of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and in Islam. Polygamy in the Monogamous World: Multicultural Challenges for Western La…
Women's Economic Advancement in the Twentieth-Century United States
The integration of women into formal labor markets was one of the most salient changes of the twentieth century. The “female century,” in the words of The Economist , witnessed an extraordinary transformation of women's opportunities and outcomes both in and outside the household. My dissertation explores both the causes and the consequences of women's move from home to market in the United States during three episodes of rapid change. It begins …
The Wage Gains of African-American Women in the 1940s
The 1940s marked a turning point in the labor market outcomes of African-American women. They experienced large wage gains relative to white women, sharp declines in agricultural and domestic service work, and significant increases in formal sector employment. Using a semiparametric decomposition technique, we assess the influence of changes in productive and personal characteristics, in workers' distribution across occupations and locations, and…
The Wage Gains of African-American Women in the 1940s
The weekly wage gap between black and white female workers narrowed by 15 percentage points during the 1940s. We employ a semi-parametric technique to decompose changes in the distribution of wages. We find that changes in worker characteristics (such as education, occupation and industry, and region of residence) can account for a significant portion of wage convergence between black and white women, but that changes in the wage structure, inclu…
Regulation of Cohabitation and Marriage in Canada
Marriage in Canada had lost much of its legal significance because of the extension of many of the incidents of marriage to unmarried cohabitants of the same or opposite sex. This process has resulted in large part from decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or marital status is constitutionally impermissible. In a decision that seemed to many a surprising reversal of this trend, the Suprem…
ABC's “Person of the Week: American Values in Television News
This study analyzed five years of “ABC World News Tonight's ‘Person of the Week’” segments to identify prominent types of people and values endorsed by mainstream news media. Individuals most frequently selected for ABC's honor lived in the United States; worked in politics and entertainment; and were white, male, and famous. American values such as individualism, heroism, and unselfishness were more commonly portrayed than were populism, capital…
Usenet Discussion Groups in Political Science Courses
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Mediation of Divorce in China
Western mediators have accepted at face value claims as to the general acceptability and voluntariness of Chinese mediation. Their failure to attend to the cultural context in which Chinese mediation practices are embedded has led to a partial and uncritical impression. Those who cite current mediation practices in China either as positive examples or as models to follow should note mediation's implication in the social control exercised by an au…
Simple strategies for improving inference with linked data: A case study of the 1850–1930 Ipums linked representative historical samples
New large-scale linked data are revolutionizing quantitative history and demography. This paper proposes two complementary strategies for improving inference with linked historical data: the use of validation variables to identify higher quality links and a simple, regression-based weighting procedure to increase the representativeness of custom research samples. We demonstrate the potential value of these strategies using the 1850-1930 Integrate…
The Wage Gains of African-American Women in the 1940s
The 1940s marked a turning point in the labor market outcomes of African-American women. They experienced large wage gains relative to white women, sharp declines in agricultural and domestic service work, and significant increases in formal sector employment. Using a semiparametric decomposition technique, we assess the influence of changes in productive and personal characteristics, in workers' distribution across occupations and locations, and…
The creation of Life-M: The Longitudinal, Intergenerational Family Electronic Micro-Database project
This paper describes the creation of the Longitudinal, Intergenerational Family Electronic Micro-Database (LIFE-M), a new data resource linking vital records and decennial censuses for millions of individuals and families living in the late 19th and 20th centuries in the United States. This combination of records provides a life-course and intergenerational perspective on the evolution of health and economic outcomes. Vital records also enable th…
How Johnson Fought the War on Poverty: The Economics and Politics of Funding at the Office of Economic Opportunity
This article presents a quantitative analysis of the geographic distribution of spending through the 1964 Economic Opportunity Act (EOA). Using newly assembled state- and county-level data, the results show that the Johnson administration directed funding in ways consistent with the War on Poverty's rhetoric of fighting poverty and racial discrimination: poorer areas and those with a greater share of nonwhite residents received systematically mor…
ABC's “Person of the Week: American Values in Television News
This study analyzed five years of “ABC World News Tonight's ‘Person of the Week’” segments to identify prominent types of people and values endorsed by mainstream news media. Individuals most frequently selected for ABC's honor lived in the United States; worked in politics and entertainment; and were white, male, and famous. American values such as individualism, heroism, and unselfishness were more commonly portrayed than were populism, capital…
The Missing Baby Bust: The Consequences of the Covid-19 Pandemic for Contraceptive Use, Pregnancy, and Childbirth Among Low-Income Women
Five Decades of Remarkable but Slowing Change in U.S. Women's Economic and Social Status and Political Participation
The last fifty years of women's social and economic progress have been lauded as the "grand gender convergence," the "second demographic transition," and the "rise of women"-terms pointing to the remarkable transformation in women's social and economic roles since the 1960s. Many metrics document these changes
Recent Evidence on the Broad Benefits of Reproductive Health Policy
Breathing new life into death certificates: Extracting handwritten cause of death in the Life-M project
The demographic and epidemiological transitions of the past 200 years are well documented at an aggregate level. Understanding differences in individual and group risks for mortality during these transitions requires linkage between demographic data and detailed individual cause of death information. This paper describes the digitization of almost 185,000 causes of death for Ohio to supplement demographic information in the Longitudinal, Intergen…
Regulation of Cohabitation and Marriage in Canada
Marriage in Canada had lost much of its legal significance because of the extension of many of the incidents of marriage to unmarried cohabitants of the same or opposite sex. This process has resulted in large part from decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or marital status is constitutionally impermissible. In a decision that seemed to many a surprising reversal of this trend, the Suprem…
Mediation of Divorce in China
Western mediators have accepted at face value claims as to the general acceptability and voluntariness of Chinese mediation. Their failure to attend to the cultural context in which Chinese mediation practices are embedded has led to a partial and uncritical impression. Those who cite current mediation practices in China either as positive examples or as models to follow should note mediation's implication in the social control exercised by an au…
Mediation of Divorce in China
Western mediators have accepted at face value claims as to the general acceptability and voluntariness of Chinese mediation. Their failure to attend to the cultural context in which Chinese mediation practices are embedded has led to a partial and uncritical impression. Those who cite current mediation practices in China either as positive examples or as models to follow should note mediation's implication in the social control exercised by an au…
Usenet Discussion Groups in Political Science Courses
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
ABC's “Person of the Week: American Values in Television News
This study analyzed five years of “ABC World News Tonight's ‘Person of the Week’” segments to identify prominent types of people and values endorsed by mainstream news media. Individuals most frequently selected for ABC's honor lived in the United States; worked in politics and entertainment; and were white, male, and famous. American values such as individualism, heroism, and unselfishness were more commonly portrayed than were populism, capital…
The Wage Gains of African-American Women in the 1940s
The weekly wage gap between black and white female workers narrowed by 15 percentage points during the 1940s. We employ a semi-parametric technique to decompose changes in the distribution of wages. We find that changes in worker characteristics (such as education, occupation and industry, and region of residence) can account for a significant portion of wage convergence between black and white women, but that changes in the wage structure, inclu…
Regulation of Cohabitation and Marriage in Canada
Marriage in Canada had lost much of its legal significance because of the extension of many of the incidents of marriage to unmarried cohabitants of the same or opposite sex. This process has resulted in large part from decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or marital status is constitutionally impermissible. In a decision that seemed to many a surprising reversal of this trend, the Suprem…
Women's Economic Advancement in the Twentieth-Century United States
The integration of women into formal labor markets was one of the most salient changes of the twentieth century. The “female century,” in the words of The Economist , witnessed an extraordinary transformation of women's opportunities and outcomes both in and outside the household. My dissertation explores both the causes and the consequences of women's move from home to market in the United States during three episodes of rapid change. It begins …
The Wage Gains of African-American Women in the 1940s
The 1940s marked a turning point in the labor market outcomes of African-American women. They experienced large wage gains relative to white women, sharp declines in agricultural and domestic service work, and significant increases in formal sector employment. Using a semiparametric decomposition technique, we assess the influence of changes in productive and personal characteristics, in workers' distribution across occupations and locations, and…
Polygamy in the Monogamous World: Multicultural Challenges for Western Law and Policy
This fact-filled book on polygamy and plural unions around the world supports an in-depth consideration of policy options for Western countries. Polygamy and plural marriage have become front-and-center issues in Europe, Canada, and the United States, notably on two religious fronts: among some splinter groups of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and in Islam. Polygamy in the Monogamous World: Multicultural Challenges for Western La…
Gains and Gaps: Changing Inequality in U.S. College Entry and Completion
Further Evidence on the Internal Validity of the Early Legal Access Research Design
Randomized controlled experiments are the gold standard of causal analysis, but they are unavailable to answer many questions of policy interest. Access to the Pill or abortion, for instance, was never explicitly randomly assigned, so quasi-experiments provide an important path for understanding their effects
Recent Evidence on the Broad Benefits of Reproductive Health Policy
How Johnson Fought the War on Poverty: The Economics and Politics of Funding at the Office of Economic Opportunity
This article presents a quantitative analysis of the geographic distribution of spending through the 1964 Economic Opportunity Act (EOA). Using newly assembled state- and county-level data, the results show that the Johnson administration directed funding in ways consistent with the War on Poverty's rhetoric of fighting poverty and racial discrimination: poorer areas and those with a greater share of nonwhite residents received systematically mor…
Five Decades of Remarkable but Slowing Change in U.S. Women's Economic and Social Status and Political Participation
The last fifty years of women's social and economic progress have been lauded as the "grand gender convergence," the "second demographic transition," and the "rise of women"-terms pointing to the remarkable transformation in women's social and economic roles since the 1960s. Many metrics document these changes
How Well Do Automated Linking Methods Perform? Lessons from US Historical Data
This paper reviews the literature in historical record linkage in the United States and examines the performance of widely used record-linking algorithms and common variations in their assumptions. We use two high-quality, hand-linked data sets and one synthetic ground truth to examine the direct effects of linking algorithms on data quality. We find that (i) no algorithm (including hand linking) consistently produces representative samples; (ii)…
Simple strategies for improving inference with linked data: A case study of the 1850–1930 Ipums linked representative historical samples
New large-scale linked data are revolutionizing quantitative history and demography. This paper proposes two complementary strategies for improving inference with linked historical data: the use of validation variables to identify higher quality links and a simple, regression-based weighting procedure to increase the representativeness of custom research samples. We demonstrate the potential value of these strategies using the 1850-1930 Integrate…
The Economic Impact of a High National Minimum Wage: Evidence from the 1966 Fair Labor Standards Act
This paper examines the short and longer-term economic effects of the 1966 Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) which increased the national minimum wage to its highest level of the 20th Century and extended coverage to an additional 9.1 million workers. Exploiting differences in the "bite" of the minimum wage due to regional variation in the standard of living and industry composition, this paper finds that the 1966 FLSA increased wages dramatically …
The Missing Baby Bust: The Consequences of the Covid-19 Pandemic for Contraceptive Use, Pregnancy, and Childbirth Among Low-Income Women
The creation of Life-M: The Longitudinal, Intergenerational Family Electronic Micro-Database project
This paper describes the creation of the Longitudinal, Intergenerational Family Electronic Micro-Database (LIFE-M), a new data resource linking vital records and decennial censuses for millions of individuals and families living in the late 19th and 20th centuries in the United States. This combination of records provides a life-course and intergenerational perspective on the evolution of health and economic outcomes. Vital records also enable th…
Breathing new life into death certificates: Extracting handwritten cause of death in the Life-M project
The demographic and epidemiological transitions of the past 200 years are well documented at an aggregate level. Understanding differences in individual and group risks for mortality during these transitions requires linkage between demographic data and detailed individual cause of death information. This paper describes the digitization of almost 185,000 causes of death for Ohio to supplement demographic information in the Longitudinal, Intergen…
The Effects of the Great Depression on Children’s Intergenerational Mobility
This article examines the role of the Great Depression in shaping the intergenerational mobility of some of the most upwardly mobile cohorts of the twentieth century. Using newly linked census and vital records from the Longitudinal, Intergenerational Family Electronic Micro-database, we examine the occupational and educational mobility of more than 265,000 sons and daughters born in Ohio and North Carolina. We find that the deepest and most prot…
Economics (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (6 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Mathematics (5 works) · Politics (5 works)