Kasey Buckles

Buckles' research examines the economics of the family, economic demography, and the well-being of children.^[5][6] In work receiving media attention, she has found that children spaced at least two years apart do better on standardized tests,^[7] that pregnancies are a leading indicator of economic downturns,^[8] that fertility did not recover from the Great Recession as quickly as in previous economic downturns,^[3] and that much of the recent decline in fertility in the U.S. can be attributed to a reduction in unintended pregnancies.^[9]

• Buckles, Kasey S., and Daniel M. Hungerman. "Season of birth and later outcomes: Old questions, new answers." Review of Economics and Statistics 95, no. 3 (2013): 711–724.
• Baicker, Katherine, Kasey S. Buckles, and Amitabh Chandra. "Geographic variation in the appropriate use of cesarean delivery: do higher usage rates reflect medically inappropriate use of this procedure?." Health Affairs 25, no. Suppl1 (2006): W355-W367.
• Buckles, Kasey S., and Elizabeth L. Munnich. "Birth spacing and sibling outcomes." Journal of Human Resources 47, no. 3 (2012): 613–642.
• Buckles, Kasey. "Understanding the returns to delayed childbearing for working women." American Economic Review 98, no. 2 (2008): 403–07.
• Buckles, Kasey, Daniel Hungerman, and Steven Lugauer. Is Fertility a Leading Economic Indicator?. No. w24355. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2018.
• Buckles, Kasey, Melanie E. Guldi, and Lucie Schmidt. Fertility Trends in the United States, 1980-2017: The Role of Unintended Births. No. w25521. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019.