Seth Sanders

Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Tel: 301-405-3497
Email: sanders@econ.umd.edu

Seth Sanders, Professor, received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1993 and joined the Maryland faculty in 1999. Prior to coming to Maryland he was an Associate Professor at the Heinz School of Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. His main area of interest is labor economics with a particular emphasis on economic demography. The wide variety of topics he has studied include the cost and consequences of teenage childbearing to mothers and government, the use of welfare programs, the economic progress of Asian Americans in the U.S. economy, and the economic demography of gays and lesbians in America. His publications include "Why Do Eligible Households Not Use Food Stamps? Evidence from an Experiment (with B. Daponte and L. Taylor) Journal of Human Resources, 1999; "Bounding the Effects of Teenage Childbearing using Contaminated Instruments" (with V.J. Hotz and C. Mullin), Review of Economic Studies, 1998; "A New Look at Human Capital Investment: A Study of Asian Immigrants and Their Family Ties." (with H.O. Duleep and M. Regets), Upjohn Institute Monograph, forthcoming; "A Simulation Estimator for Sequential Models of Discrete Choice" (with V.J. Hotz, R. Miller, and J. Smith), Review of Economic Studies, 1994.

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