CSWEP Board: Caitlin Myers

Caitlin Myers (CeMENT Co-Director) is the John G. McCullough Professor of Economics at Middlebury College and a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research. She primarily teaches courses on statistics, regression analysis, and causal inference, and her scholarship applies these tools to identify and measure the causal effects of abortion policies and abortion access on people’s lives.

Her research has been published in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Health Economics, and Journal of Public Economics. In addition, she collects and disseminates data measuring the evolving landscape of abortion access through platforms like abortionaccessdashboard.org and Open Science Framework. Professor Myers’ work has been featured in major media outlets such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, NPR, and The New Yorker. She led the economists’ amicus brief in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, the Supreme Court case that overturned Roe v. Wade. She also testified in the U.S. Senate Budget Committee on the links between reproductive and economic policy.