Kasey Buckles

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  Published on: 8/4/2009    Last Visited: 8/4/2009  

  University of Notre Dame economist Kasey Buckles says that "money" or more precisely the price of marriage, can significantly affect the decision to marry.
  
  Buckles and co-authors Melanie Guldi, of Mount Holyoke College and Joseph Price of Bringham Young University, have pointed out that economists have long been interested in how individuals respond to changes in the cost of marriage.

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  Published on: 8/3/2009    Last Visited: 8/3/2009  

  Contact: Kasey Buckles kbuckles@nd.edu 574-631-6210 University of Notre Dame
  
  New study examines how cost affects decisions to marry
  
  "Money can't buy me love" the Beattles famously sang. And now a new paper by University of Notre Dame economist Kasey Buckles and colleagues suggests "money" or more precisely the price of marriage, can significantly affect the decision to marry.
  
  Buckles and coauthors Melanie Guldi of Mount Holyoke College and Joseph Price of Bringham Young University point out that economists have long been interested in how individuals respond to changes in the cost of marriage.
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  Using data on state marriage rates between 1980 and 2006, Buckles and her colleagues found that when blood test requirements are in place, states issue 5.7 percent fewer marriage licenses.
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  Buckles and her fellow researchers hope that their results may be of use to policy makers considering other policies that directly (required premarital counseling, waiting periods and license fees) and indirectly (tax and transfer programs) affect the cost of getting married.
  
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  The paper will appear as part of the National Bureau of Economic Research's Working Paper Series. Buckles, who joined the Notre Dame faculty in 2005, studies labor economics and microeconometrics.

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  Published on: 8/8/2006    Last Visited: 6/23/2008  

  "This unexplained variation [if unrelated to patient and area characteristics] could be labeled as the ,practice style' of an area," explain Chandra and his coauthors, Notre Dame assistant professor of economics Kasey Buckles and UCLA associate professor of public policy Katherine Baicker.
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  You can read the article by Chandra, Buckles, and Baicker at http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.25.w355

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  Published on: 8/4/2009    Last Visited: 8/4/2009  

  University of Notre Dame economist Kasey Buckles, Melanie Guldi of Mount Holyoke College and Joseph Price of Brigham Young University suggest "money" -- or more precisely the price of marriage -- can significantly affect the decision to marry.
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  Premarital blood tests may have a heavy psychological cost because some avoid them due to fear of the sight of blood or the burden of discovering a positive test result that has to be revealed to a partner, Buckles said.

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  Published on: 1/7/2009    Last Visited: 1/7/2009  

  Contact: Kasey Buckles kbuckles@nd.edu 574-631-6210 University of Notre Dame
  
  New study suggests winter babies face socioeconomic disadvantages
  
  Many of us may often feel that we've been born under an unlucky sign. Now, new research by a pair of University of Notre Dame economists suggests that some of us are, in fact, born in an unlucky season.
  
  In their paper, Kasey Buckles and Daniel Hungerman point out that a large body of previous research consistently has found that people born in December, January and February are, on average, less educated, less intelligent, less healthy and lower paid than people born in other seasons.
  
  A variety of explanations have been suggested for this phenomenon, including such social and natural factors as compulsory schooling laws, changes in climate and exposure to illness. However, the exact cause of the association between season of birth and later outcomes has never been precisely clear.
  
  In the new study, Buckles and Hungerman analyzed U.S census data and birth certificates to determine if the typical woman giving birth in winter is any different from the typical woman giving birth at other times of the year.
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  Buckles and Hungerman also point out that there could be a "prom babies" effect, with winter births occurring nine moths after end-of-year school celebrations.
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  Buckles and Hungerman suggest that women who are wealthier and more educated are better able to time their births to more desirable seasons.
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  Contacts: Kasey Buckles, assistant professor, economics and econometrics, 574-631-6210, and Daniel Hungerman, assistant professor, economics and econometrics, 574-631-4495

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  Published on: 9/30/2009    Last Visited: 10/27/2009  

  These data, reported by economists Kasey Buckles and Daniel Hungerman at the University of Notre Dame, may offer an explanation for the observation that, compared to "summer babies," those born in winter months tend to do more poorly in school, are less healthy, earn less, and have shorter lifespans.

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  Published on: 2/20/2009    Last Visited: 2/21/2009  

  Dan Hungerman and Kasey Buckles are economists at Notre Dame and their research shows that babies born in January, February and March earn less money, are less educated and die earlier.

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  Economists Kasey Buckles and Daniel Hungerman at the University of Notre Dame examined birth-certificate data for 52 million children born between 1989 and 2001, and their work revealed that the percentage of children born to unwed mothers, teen moms and mothers who had not completed high school peaked in January.
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  Buckles and Hungerman's data indicates that family background may be the single biggest influence on the failure of winter babies to do as well as their peers born in warmer months.

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  Published on: 1/25/2006    Last Visited: 11/3/2009  

  But economists Kasey Buckles and Daniel Hungerman at the University of Notre Dame may have uncovered an overlooked explanation for why season of birth matters.

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  Health Affairs Press Release - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/8/2006    Last Visited: 9/29/2006  

  For babies in both weight groupings, almost half of the geographical variation in cesarean rates -- 40.5 percent for NBW babies and 42.8 percent for L/VLBW babies -- was left unexplained after all of these factors were accounted for. ,This unexplained variation [if unrelated to patient and area characteristics] could be labeled as the ,practice style, of an area,, explain Chandra and his coauthors, Notre Dame assistant professor of economics Kasey Buckles and UCLA associate professor of public policy Katherine Baicker.
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  You can read the article by Chandra, Buckles, and Baicker at http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.25.w355

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