Curriculum Vitae

Seth G. Sanders

Box 90097, Durham, NC 27708-0097
(email)
Education

AB (Economics)University of Chicago1984

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University
Professor of Economics, July 01, 2008 - present
Professor of Public Policy (term joint appointment - *primary in Economics*)
Maryland Population Research Center
Director, 2004 - present
Associate Director, July, 2000 - June, 2004
University Maryland
Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, August, 2003 - June, 2008
Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, August, 1999 - July, 2003
Hoover Institution
National Fellow, September, 1998 - present
Carnegie Mellon University
Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy, H. John Heinz School of Public Policy and Management, July, 1998 - August, 1999
Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy, H. John Heinz School of Public Policy and Management, September, 1991 - June, 1998
Carnegie Mellon Research Census Data Center
Research Director, September, 1995 - August, 1999
NORC/University of Chicago
Research Assistant, January, 1988 - June, 1991
University of Chicago
Instructor, 1987 - 1989
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Economist, Summer, 1987
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

Pew Teaching Fellowship, 1986-1987, 1987-1988, 1988-1989
University of Chicago Fellowship, 1985-1990
Conferences Organized

Chair, Economics of Fertility, March 31, 2011
Professional Service

A&S Council
Chair, Appointment Committee for Giovanni Zenalda, December 2010
University Committee
Member, Provost's Committee on Assessment of Computational Futures at Duke, 2011 - present
Dept Committee
Review Committee of Jacob Vigdor (PP), 14 December 2009
PhD Admissions Committee, November 01, 2009 - present
Member, Committee to Evaluate Alex Pfaff, January 2012
Review Committee of Christina Gibson Davis, December 2010
Committee to Evaluate Peter Arcidiacono, December 2009
Chair, Committee to Evaluate Pat Bayer, December 2009
Committee to Evaluate Elizabeth Frankenberg (PP), December 2009
Papers Refereed
P01 Review Committee NIA, January 2012
Member, NIH P01 Review Panel, December 2010
Community Service
Chair, Technical Review Panel of the NLA, January 01, 2013 - December 31, 2015
Chair, Technical Review Panel of the NLS, January 01, 2013 - December 31, 2015
Lectures

Invited Lectures:
Appalachia and the Legacy of the War on Poverty: A Research Agenda, University of Kentucky, Center for Poverty Research, October 02, 2009
Neuroscience and Population Science, Neuroeconomics Retreat, Chapel Hill, August, 2009
Economizing on Crime Prevention, NBER, Boston MA, July, 2009
Invited Lectures:
The Impact of the Great Migration on Mortality of African Americans: Evidence from the Deep South, University of Michigan, Population Research Center, 2012
The Impact of the Great Migration on Mortality of African Americans: Evidence from the Deep South, Broom Demography Center, UC Santa Barbara, October 03, 2011
The Impact of the Great Migration on Mortality of African Americans: Evidence from the Deep South, University of Maryland, May 05, 2011
The Impact of the Great Migration on Mortality of African Americans: Evidence from the Deep South, Duke University, May 03, 2011
Meetings:
Workplace Concentration of Immigrants, Population Association of America Meetings, 2012
Public Policy and Families, Population Association of America, 2012

Publications

Chapters in Books

  1. Hotz, VJ; McElroy, SW; Sanders, SG, The impacts of teenage childbearing on the mothers and the consequences of those impacts for government, in Kids Having Kids: Economic Costs and Social Consequences of Teen Pregnancy (January, 2018), pp. 55-94.
  2. Kranton, RE; Sanders, SG, Groupy versus non-groupy social preferences: Personality, region, and political party, American Economic Review, vol. 107 no. 5 (May, 2017), pp. 65-69, American Economic Association.
  3. Black, D; Gates, G; Sanders, S; Taylor, L, Demographics of the gay and lesbian population in The United States: Evidence from available systematic data sources, in Queer Economics: A Reader (January, 2013), pp. 61-92.
  4. S.G. Sanders, V.J. Hotz, & S. McElroy, The Impact of Teenage Childbearing on the Mothers and the Consequences of those Impacts for Government, in Kids Having Kids: Economic Cost and Social Consequences of Teen Pregnancy, edited by Rebecca Maynard (1996).

Edited Volumes

  1. S.G. Sanders, Crime and the family: Lessons from teenage childbearing, in Controlling Crime: Strategies and Tradeoffs, edited by Philip J. Cook, Jens Ludwig and Justin McCrary (2011), NBER.

Papers Submitted

  1. Fredrik Andersson, Monica Garcia-Perez, John Haltiwanger, Kristin McCue and Seth Sanders, Workplace Concentration of Immigrants, Revise and Resubmit at Demography (2012).
  2. Dan Black, Yu-Chieh Hsu, Seth Sanders, Lowell Taylor, Forward and Backward Estimates of Mortality, Revise and Resubmit at Demography (2012).
  3. Dan Black, Seth Sanders, Evan Taylor, Lowell Taylor, The Impact of the Great Migration on Mortality of African, Revise and Resubmitt at the American Economic Review (2012).

Papers Published

  1. Black, DA; Hsu, Y-C; Sanders, SG; Schofield, LS; Taylor, LJ, The Methuselah Effect: The Pernicious Impact of Unreported Deaths on Old-Age Mortality Estimates., Demography, vol. 54 no. 6 (December, 2017), pp. 2001-2024.
  2. Black, DA; Hsu, Y-C; Sanders, SG; Taylor, LJ, Combining forward and backward mortality estimation., Population Studies, vol. 71 no. 3 (November, 2017), pp. 281-292.
  3. Black, DA; Sanders, SG; Taylor, EJ; Taylor, LJ, The Impact of the Great Migration on Mortality of African Americans: Evidence from the Deep South., American Economic Review, vol. 105 no. 2 (February, 2015), pp. 477-503.
  4. Arcidiacono, P; Beauchamp, A; Hull, M; Sanders, S, Exploring the racial divide in education and the labor market through evidence from interracial families, Journal of Human Capital, vol. 9 no. 2 (January, 2015), pp. 198-238, University of Chicago Press.
  5. Andersson, F; García-Pérez, M; Haltiwanger, J; McCue, K; Sanders, S, Workplace Concentration of Immigrants, Demography, vol. 51 no. 6 (December, 2014), pp. 2281-2306.
  6. Israel, S; Caspi, A; Belsky, DW; Harrington, H; Hogan, S; Houts, R; Ramrakha, S; Sanders, S; Poulton, R; Moffitt, TE, Credit scores, cardiovascular disease risk, and human capital., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 111 no. 48 (December, 2014), pp. 17087-17092.
  7. Gorsuch, MM; Sanders, SG; Wu, B, Tooth loss in Appalachia and the Mississippi delta relative to other regions in the United States, 1999-2010., American Journal of Public Health, vol. 104 no. 5 (May, 2014), pp. e85-e91.
  8. Black, DA; Kolesnikova, N; Sanders, SG; Taylor, LJ, THE ROLE OF LOCATION IN EVALUATING RACIAL WAGE DISPARITY., Journal of Labor Economics, vol. 2 no. 1 (May, 2013), pp. 2-2.
  9. Black, DA; Kolesnikova, N; Sanders, SG; Taylor, LJ, Are Children “Normal”?, Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 95 no. 1 (March, 2013), pp. 21-33.
  10. Dan Black, Natalia Kolesnikova, Seth Sanders and Lowell Taylor, Are Children Normal?, Review of Economics and Statistics (February, 2012 (posted online)).
  11. Dan Black and S.G. Sanders, Inequality and Human Capital in Appalachia, 1960–2000, in Appalachian Legacy: Economic Opportunity After the War on Poverty, edited by James Ziliak (2012), pp. 240, Brookings Institution Press.
  12. Eduardo Fajnzylber, S.G. Sanders, V.J Hotz, An Economic Model of Amniocentesis Choice Advances in Life Course, Advances in Life Course Research, vol. 15 no. 1 (March, 2010), pp. 11-26.
  13. Fajnzylber, E; Hotz, VJ; Sanders, SG, An economic model of amniocentesis choice., Advances in Life Course Research, vol. 15 no. 1 (March, 2010), pp. 11-26.
  14. Black, DA; Haviland, A; Sanders, SG; Taylor, LJ, Gender Wage Disparities among the Highly Educated., The Journal of Human Resources, vol. 43 no. 3 (Summer, 2008), pp. 630-659.
  15. S.G. Sanders, D. Black, A. Haviland, & L. Taylor, Gender Wage Differences Among the Highly Educated, Journal of Human Resources (2008) (forthcoming.).
  16. Black, DA; Sanders, SG; Taylor, LJ, The economics of lesbian and gay families, The Journal of Economic Perspectives : a Journal of the American Economic Association, vol. 21 no. 2 (March, 2007), pp. 53-70, American Economic Association.
  17. Black, D; Haviland, A; Sanders, S; Taylor, L, Why do minority men earn less? A study of wage differentials among the highly educated, The Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 88 no. 2 (July, 2006), pp. 300-313, MIT Press - Journals.
  18. Seltzer, JA; Bachrach, CA; Bianchi, SM; Bledsoe, CH; Casper, LM; Chase-Lansdale, PL; Diprete, TA; Hotz, VJ; Morgan, SP; Sanders, SG; Thomas, D, Explaining Family Change and Variation: Challenges for Family Demographers., Journal of Marriage and the Family, vol. 67 no. 4 (November, 2005), pp. 908-925.
  19. Black, DA; McKinnish, TG; Sanders, SG, Tight labor markets and the demand for education: Evidence from the coal boom and bust, Ilr Review, vol. 59 no. 1 (October, 2005), pp. 3-16, SAGE Publications.
  20. Hotz, VJ; McElroy, SW; Sanders, SG, Teenage childbearing and its life cycle consequences: Exploiting a natural experiment, The Journal of Human Resources, vol. 40 no. 3 (Summer, 2005), pp. 683-715, University of Wisconsin Press.
  21. Black, D; McKinnish, T; Sanders, S, The economic impact of the coal boom and bust, The Economic Journal, vol. 115 no. 503 (April, 2005), pp. 449-476, Oxford University Press (OUP).
  22. Black, D; Sanders, S; Taylor, L, Measurement of Higher Education in the Census and Current Population Survey, Journal of the American Statistical Association, vol. 98 no. 463 (September, 2003), pp. 545-554, Informa UK Limited.
  23. Sanders, SG; Black, D; McKinnish, T, Does the Availability of High-Wage Jobs for Low-Skilled Men Affects AFDC Expenditures: Evidence from Shocks to the Coal and Steel Industries, Journal of the Public Economics, vol. 87 no. 9-10 (September, 2003), pp. 1919-1940.
  24. Black, DA; McKinnish, TG; Sanders, SG, Does the availability of high-wage jobs for low-skilled men affect welfare expenditures? Evidence from shocks to the steel and coal industries, Journal of Public Economics, vol. 87 no. 9-10 (September, 2003), pp. 1921-1942, Elsevier BV.
  25. Black, DA; Sanders, S; Taylor, L, The economic reward for studying economics, Economic Inquiry, vol. 41 no. 3 (July, 2003), pp. 365-377, WILEY.
  26. Sanders, SG; Black, D; Makar, H; Taylor, L, The Effect of Sexual Orientation on Earnings, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, vol. 56 no. 3 (March, 2003), pp. 449-469.
  27. Nagin, DS; Rebitzer, JB; Sanders, S; Taylor, LJ, Monitoring, motivation, and management: The determinants of opportunistic behavior in a field experiment, American Economic Review, vol. 92 no. 4 (September, 2002), pp. 850-873, American Economic Association.
  28. Black, D; Gates, G; Sanders, S; Taylor, L, Why do gay men live in San Francisco?, Journal of Urban Economics, vol. 51 no. 1 (January, 2002), pp. 54-76, Elsevier BV.
  29. Black, D; Daniel, K; Sanders, S, The Impact of Economic Conditions on Participation in Disability Programs: Evidence from the Coal Boom and Bust., American Economic Review, vol. 92 no. 1 (January, 2002), pp. 27-50.
  30. Black, D; Gates, G; Sanders, S; Taylor, L, Demographics of the gay and lesbian population in the United States: evidence from available systematic data sources., Demography, vol. 37 no. 2 (May, 2000), pp. 139-154.
  31. Black, D; McKinnish, T; Sanders, SG, Are We Understating the Impact of Economic Conditions on Welfare Rolls?, vol. 5 no. 4 (March, 2000), pp. 489-505.
  32. McKinnish, T; Sanders, S; Smith, J, Estimates of effective guarantees and tax rates in the AFDC program for the post-OBRA period, The Journal of Human Resources, vol. 34 no. 2 (Spring, 1999), pp. 312-345, JSTOR.
  33. Daponte, BO; Sanders, S; Taylor, L, Why do low-income households not use food stamps? Evidence from an experiment, The Journal of Human Resources, vol. 34 no. 3 (Summer, 1999), pp. 612-628, JSTOR.
  34. Daponte, BO; Lewis, GH; Sanders, S; Taylor, L, Food pantry use among low-income households in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, vol. 30 no. 1 (January, 1998), pp. 50-57.
  35. S.G. Sanders & R.A. Miller, Human Capital Development and Welfare Participation, Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, vol. 46 (July, 1997), pp. 1-47.
  36. Hotz, VJ; Mullin, CH; Sanders, SG, Bounding Causal Effects Using Data from a Contaminated Natural Experiment: Analysing the Effects of Teenage Childbearing, Review of Economic Studies, vol. 64 no. 4 (January, 1997), pp. 575-603, Oxford University Press (OUP).
  37. Sanders, SG; Duleep, HO, Empirical Regularities Across Cultures: The Effect of Children on Women's Work, Journal of Human Resources, vol. 29 no. 2 (Spring, 1994), pp. 328-347.
  38. Hotz, VJ; Miller, RA; Sanders, S; Smith, J, A simulation estimator for dynamic models of discrete choice, Review of Economic Studies, vol. 61 no. 2 (January, 1994), pp. 265-289, Oxford University Press (OUP).
  39. Sanders, SG; Duleep, HO, The Decision to Work by Married Immigrant Women: Evidence from Asian Women, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, vol. 46 no. 4 (July, 1993), pp. 677-690.
  40. DULEEP, HO; SANDERS, S, Discrimination at the Top: American‐Born Asian and White Men, Industrial Relations, vol. 31 no. 3 (January, 1992), pp. 416-432, WILEY.

Papers In Preparation

  1. Rachel Kranton, Matthew Pease, Seth Sanders and Scott Huettel, Redistribution, Ideology & Identity (2011).
  2. S.G. Sanders, D. Black, G. Gates, & L. Taylor, Same Sex Couples in the 2000 Census. How Many are Gay? (2008).
  3. S.G. Sanders & S. Bohn, Refining the Estimation of Immigration’s Labor Market Effects (January, 2005).
  4. S.G. Sanders & V. J. Hotz, A Dynamic Model of Amniocentesis, Working Paper (February, 2002).
  5. S.G. Sanders, D. Black, G. Gates, & L. Taylor, Intra-city Location Patterns of Gay Men (July, 2001).
  6. S.G. Sanders, J. Gelbach, & B. Tran, Why is a Husband’s Labor Supply Strongly Correlated with His Wife’s Labor Supply: The Case of Older Couples, Working Paper (March, 2001).

Other

  1. S.G. Sanders, V.J. Hotz, & S. McElroy, The Costs and Consequences of Teenage Childbearing for Mothers, Chicago Policy Review, vol. 1 no. 1 (1996), pp. 55-94.
  2. S.G. Sanders, D. Black, & K. Daniel, The Rise and Fall of King Coal, Kentucky Annual Economic Report (1995).
  3. S.G. Sanders, B. Daponte, G. Lewis, & L. Taylor, An Examination of Food Pantry Use, United Way (December, 1994).
  4. S.G. Sanders & V. J. Hotz, Bounding Treatment Effects in Experimental Evaluations Subject to Post-Randomization Treatment Choice, Bulletin of the International Statistical Institute, 49th Session (1994).
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