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Maryland Population Research Center
2002-2003 Seminar Series

SPEAKER:	Seth Sanders, Associate Professor of Economics and Associate Director Maryland Population Research Center
TITLE:	The Role of Measurement Error in Studying Minority Groups
DATE:	Friday, March 7, 2003
TIME:	12:00 Noon
PLACE:	1101 Art-Sociology University of Maryland, College Park Campus
Seth Sanders 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 Associate Professor at the Heinz School of Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, 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 "The Effects of Sexual Orientation on Earnings," (with D. Black, H. Makar, and L. Taylor), Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2003; "The Impact of Economic Conditions on Participation in Disability Programs: Evidence from the Coal Boom and Bust, (with D. Black and K. Daniel), American Economic Review, 2002; and "Does the Availability of High-Wage Jobs for Low-Skilled Men Affect Welfare Expenditures? Evidence from Shocks to the Coal and Steel Industries," Journal of Public Economics, 2002.

Please join us for this brown bag event. For the series schedule, please refer to http://www.popcenter.umd.edu/events/spring2003.shtml