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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.C., 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. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-16-008
Scherbov, S. & Sanderson, W.C. (2016). New Approaches to the Conceptualization and Measurement of
Age and Aging. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-16-005
Scherbov, S. , Sanderson, W., & Gietel-Basten, S. (2016). Better way to measure ageing in East Asia that takes life expectancy into account. Australasian Journal on Ageing 35 (2) 139-142. 10.1111/ajag.12267.
Sanderson, W.C. & Scherbov, S. (2016). A new perspective on patterns of aging in Europe by education and gender. Journal of Population Ageing 9 (3) 207-225. 10.1007/s12062-015-9125-z.
Sanderson, W.C. & Scherbov, S. (2015). Are we overly dependent on conventional dependency ratios? Population and Development Review 41 (4) 687-708. 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2015.00091.x.