Warren Sanderson
Guest Research Scholar
Social Cohesion, Health, and Wellbeing Research Group
Population and Just Societies Program
Biography
Warren Sanderson rejoined IIASA in June 2008 as an Institute Scholar. He is also a Professor of Economics and Professor of History at Stony Brook University in New York State, USA. In addition, he is co-chair of the Department of Economics there. He holds a PhD in economics from Stanford University.Professor Sanderson first came to IIASA in 1980 and worked in the World Population Program. Since that time he has been a recurrent visitor to that Program. His research interests are in population-economic interactions. He has published in a variety of journals, including Nature, Science, Population and Development Review, Demography, Population Studies, and Population Index.
His recent research includes probabilistic population forecasting, measuring aging in ways that take life expectancy change into account, and the effects of education and other demographic changes on economic growth.
Last update: 10 JUN 2008
Publications
Sanderson, W.C., Skirbekk, V., & Stonawski, M. (2011). Young Adult Failure to Thrive Syndrome. IIASA Interim Report. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: IR-11-003
Scherbov, S. , Lutz, W. , & Sanderson, W.C. (2011). The Uncertain Timing of Reaching 7 Billion and Peak Population. IIASA Interim Report. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: IR-11-002
Sanderson, W.C., Tarasyev, A.M., & Usova, A.A. (2010). Capital vs education: Assessment of economic growth from two perspectives (Abstract). In: [[NOLCOS 2010]], 8th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems, 1-3 September 2010, University of Bologna, Italy
Sanderson, W.C. & Scherbov, S. (2010). Remeasuring aging. Science 329 (5997) 1287-1288. 10.1126/science.1193647.
K.C., S., Barakat, B., Goujon, A. , Skirbekk, V., Sanderson, W.C., & Lutz, W. (2010). Projection of populations by level of educational attainment, age, and sex for 120 countries for 2005-2050. Demographic Research 22 (15) 383-472. 10.4054/DemRes.2010.22.15.