Kasey Buckles

Kasey Buckles is a Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame, affiliated with the College of Arts and Letters. She holds dual roles as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the IZA Institute for Labor Economics. Her work focuses on family economics, demographic trends, and historical data analysis.

• Education: B.A. from University of Kentucky (2000), Ph.D. from Boston University (2005)

Research interests include fertility dynamics, economic demography, and leveraging historical records through digitization projects like the Census Tree dataset. She collaborates with Brigham Young University to advance methodologies for linking historical data. Recent work examines the U.S. fertility decline, the impact of economic conditions on birth rates, and intergenerational mobility using genealogical approaches.

Her articles span topics from pandemic mortality analysis to academic career progression gaps, reflecting a blend of historical, demographic, and policy-oriented research. Notable contributions include studies on the opioid crisis’s effects on children and the role of public health interventions.

• Awards: Recipient of the Joyce Award for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence at Notre Dame
• Leadership: Serves as Associate Chair and Director of Mentoring for the American Economic Association’s Committee on Women in Economics

Buckles leads initiatives to improve gender equity in academia and has pioneered methods for digitizing census records, bridging historical data with modern analytical techniques.