Kasey Buckles
Economics and Econometrics
Brian and Jeannelle Brady Associate Professor
- Economics of the family
- Economic demography
- Health economics
- Labor economics
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MarketWatch
The birthrate in the U.S. fell 4% in 2020 and immigration may be the solution, say economists
July 15, 2021
Kasey Buckles, an economics professor at Notre Dame, said that is a “huge” decline.
Associated Press
Fewer working-age people may slow economy. Will it lift pay?
July 03, 2021
“Workers generate innovation and ideas — they invent things,” said Kasey Buckles, an economics professor at the University of Notre Dame. “When you have a dwindling working-age population, you have fewer people doing that.”
The Hill
Pandemic baby bust: Millennials' bad luck leads to fewer kids
May 19, 2021
Kasey Buckles is an associate professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a research fellow at the IZA Institute for Labor Economics.
Marketplace
There’s more to the baby bust than COVID-19
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May 04, 2021
All that contributes to America’s record-low birthrates, says Notre Dame economics professor Kasey Buckles, but she’s not ready to call it a crisis yet.
KQED
How The Pandemic Baby Bust Is Dragging Down U.S. Birth Rates
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March 16, 2021
Kasey Buckles, associate professor of economics and concurrent professor of gender studies, University of Notre Dame.
The New York Times
The Radically Simple New Approach to Helping Families: Send Parents Money
February 09, 2021
“Children are future productive members of society, and their total benefit to society is greater than their benefit to their parents alone,” said Kasey Buckles, an economist at Notre Dame.
Business Insider
We've failed working mothers (again). This is how we build a better world for them.
January 30, 2021
Kasey Buckles, an associate professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame, told Insider to expect to see other longer-term effects in the next several years, adding that women often struggle to find "on-ramps" back into their careers after stepping out of the workforce.
CNBC
Researchers expect the US to face underpopulation, blaming a falling birth rate and economic crises
January 06, 2021
After that, researchers like University of Notre Dame economics professor Kasey Buckles expect to see fertility to level off or decline.