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Warren Sanderson
Guest Research Scholar
Social Cohesion, Health, and Wellbeing Research Group
Population and Just Societies Program
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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. & Scherbov, S. (2017). A unifying framework for the study of population aging. In: Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2016. Eds. Scherbov, S. & Sanderson, W., pp. 7-40 Vienna, Austria: Austrian Academy of Sciences. ISBN 978-3-7001-8151-4 10.1553/populationyearbook2016s007.
Ediev, D. , Sanderson, W., & Scherbov, S (2016). The Formal Demography of Prospective Age: The Relationship Between the Old-Age Dependency Ratio and the Prospective Old-Age Dependency Ratio. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-16-024
Sanderson, W., Scherbov, S. , Weber, D. , & Bordone, V. (2016). Combined Measures of Upper and Lower Body Strength and Subgroup Differences in Subsequent Survival Among the Older Population of England. Journal of Aging and Health 28 (7) 1178-1193. 10.1177/0898264316656515.
Scherbov, S. & Sanderson, W. (2016). New Approaches to the Conceptualization and Measurement of Age and Aging. Journal of Aging and Health 28 (7) 1159-1177. 10.1177/0898264316656517.
Sanderson, W. & Scherbov, S. (2016). Analyzing Population Aging from a New Perspective. IIASA Policy Brief. Laxenburg, Austria: PB-12