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

Ediev, D. , Sanderson, W., & Scherbov, S. (2019). The inverse relationship between life expectancy-induced changes in the old-age dependency ratio and the prospective old-age dependency ratio. Theoretical Population Biology 125 1-10. 10.1016/j.tpb.2018.10.001.

Scherbov, S. , Shulgin, S., Andruchowitz, S., Arkhangelsky, V., Ediev, D. , Efremov, I., Nikitina, S., & Sanderson, W. (2019). Russian Demographic Data Sheet 2019. Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA), Russian Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat), and International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

Prskawetz, A., Sanderson, W., & Scherbov, S. (2019). Broadening demographic horizons: demographic studies beyond age and gender. In: Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2019. pp. 001-005 Verlag der Oesterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. ISBN 978-3-7001-8364-8 10.1553/POPULATIONYEARBOOK2018S001.

Sanderson, W. & Scherbov, S. (2019). Prospective Longevity: A New Vision of Population Aging. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-06-7497561-3

Sanderson, W., Scherbov, S. , & Gerland, P. (2019). The end of population aging in high-income countries. In: Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2019. pp. 163-175 Verlag der Oesterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. ISBN 978-3-7001-8364-8 10.1553/POPULATIONYEARBOOK2018S163.