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Kasey Buckles

Economics and Econometrics

Office
3052 Jenkins and Nanovic Halls
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone
574-631-6210
Email
kbuckles@nd.edu

Brian and Jeannelle Brady Associate Professor

  • Economics of the family
  • Economic demography
  • Health economics
  • Labor economics
  • Opioid related research

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Buckles in the News

"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.

Kasey Buckles, an economics professor at Notre Dame, said that is a “huge” decline. 

“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.”

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.

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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.

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Kasey Buckles, associate professor of economics and concurrent professor of gender studies, University of Notre Dame.

“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.

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. 

After that, researchers like University of Notre Dame economics professor Kasey Buckles expect to see fertility to level off or decline.