Caitlin Knowles Myers is a professor of economics at

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and a Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), known for her recent research on the impact of contraception and abortion policies in the United States. In 2021, when the

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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

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, which was signed by more than 150 economists.

Life

Myers grew up in rural West Virginia and Georgia and trained as a labor economist, receiving her PhD from the

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in 2005. Myers was widowed in 2011, when her husband, firefighter Adam Myers, was killed in a car accident.

Research

Myers' research examines issues related to

gender Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to femininity and masculinity and differentiating between them. Depending on the context, this may include sex-based social structures (i.e. gender roles) and gender identity. Most cultures u ...

race Race, RACE or "The Race" may refer to: * Race (biology), an informal taxonomic classification within a species, generally within a sub-species * Race (human categorization), classification of humans into groups based on physical traits, and/or s ...

fertility Fertility is the capability to produce offspring through reproduction following the onset of sexual maturity. The fertility rate is the average number of children born by a female during her lifetime and is quantified demographically. Fertili ...

and the economy. In recent work, she has studied the impact of contraception and abortion policy changes. She has studied the changing influence of education on women's age at motherhood and the impact of abortion access on birth rates. In work with

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and Mark Pocock, Myers studied the effects of

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s on sleep patterns, finding that workers' sleep patterns responded to changes in

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s and time zone locations.

Selected works

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References

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