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NORC at the University Chicago

Seth Sanders

Senior Fellow
Economics, Justice & Society
Seth is a nationally recognized economic demographer, professor, and innovator.

Seth is a scientific advisor to research contracts who also conducts independent research at NORC. He has 30 years of experience conducting interdisciplinary research and leading organizations that facilitate such research. He is a labor economist and economic demographer with wide interests and expertise. He has written extensively on the U.S. economy and the factors that limit and facilitate success with a focus on the unfolding of disadvantage over the life cycle. He also has written on all aspects of demography including fertility, mortality, and immigration. His recent work focuses on issues of data quality and on methods to mitigate the effects of measurement error in statistical analysis. Besides expertise in the collection and use of panel data, he was an early innovator and contributor to constructing large matched administrative data sets for research purposes.

His independent research at NORC investigates the use of paradata from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97) and the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP) to measure cognition and cognitive aging.

Seth has published extensively in the top journals in economics and demography. He has been the recipient of numerous awards from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Among these were funding for Population Centers at the University of Maryland and Duke University and funding to develop strategies to link the 1940 Census to modern survey and administrative data at the Census Bureau. His interest in the long shadow of early life disadvantage is reflected in his teaching at Cornell University, where his course traces the 400-year history of race in the American labor market.

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Education

PhD

University of Chicago

MA

University of Chicago

BS

University of Chicago

Appointments & Affiliations

Ronald G. Ehrenberg Chaired Professor of Economics

Department of Economics, Cornell University; ILR School, Cornell University; Brooks School of Public Policy, Cornell University

Research Fellow

IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Honors & Awards

R01 Research Grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Development | 2017 - 2022

“The Heterogeneous Effects of Education on Health and Productivity”

R21 Research Grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Development | 2017 - 2019

"Using Response Time Data from Social Science Surveys to Model Behavioral Outcomes, 2016-2018”

AS Research Grant from the National Institute of Aging | 2017 - 2018

"Using Response Time Data from Social Science Surveys to Model Behavioral Outcomes”

R21 Research Grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Development | 2016 - 2018

“Constructing Life Course and Intergenerational Data Through Census Data Linkages”

Project Contributions

National Social Life, Health & Aging Project

A pioneering nationally representative study of the intersection between social and intimate relationships and healthy aging

Client:

National Institute on Aging

Publications

Research Library & Findings