

Economics and Econometrics
Brian and Jeannelle Brady Associate Professor
Newsweek
March 28, 2025
"One of the main reasons people worry about a decline in fertility is because it makes it more difficult to sustain social programs like Social Security, when you have many fewer workers for each beneficiary," Kasey Buckles, an economics professor at the University of Notre Dame, told Newsweek.
MarketWatch
July 15, 2021
Kasey Buckles, an economics professor at Notre Dame, said that is a “huge” decline.
Associated Press
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
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
Audio
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
Audio
March 16, 2021
Kasey Buckles, associate professor of economics and concurrent professor of gender studies, University of Notre Dame.
The New York Times
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
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
January 06, 2021
After that, researchers like University of Notre Dame economics professor Kasey Buckles expect to see fertility to level off or decline.