Carl Sanders
I'm an Economist at the U.S. Census Bureau. My primary research field is empirical labor economics, with research interests in empirical economics more broadly, such as education, family economics, and race/gender issues. Much of my work focuses on the theoretical and empirical aspect of worker skills: what they are, how to measure them, and what the returns to these skills are in the labor market.
CV: (pdf)
Email: carlesanders@gmail.com
Phone: 1-240-645-7982
Published Papers:
Immigrant Wage Growth in the United States: The Role of Occupational Upgrading (with Rebecca Lessem) (International Economic Review, 2020, 61: 941-972 )
Racial Gaps, Occupational Matching, and Skill Uncertainty (with Limor Golan) (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, Second Quarter 2019, pp. 135-53.)
Life-Cycle Wage Growth and Heterogeneous Human Capital (with Christopher Taber) (Annual Review of Economics, 2012, Vol 4: 399-425.)
Working Papers:
Estimating a Life-Cycle Model of Pay and Task Assignment: Productivity, Discrimination, and Racial Gaps (with Limor Golan and Jonathan James) (Under Review)
Reading Skills and Earnings: Why Does Doing Words Good Hurt Your Wages?
National Experimental Wellbeing Statistics (with Adam Bee, Joshua Mitchell, Nikolas Mittag, Jonathan Rothbaum, Lawrence Schmidt, and Matthew Unrath)
Work in Progress:
Skill Accumulation, Skill Uncertainty, and Occupational Choice
The Effects of Family Structure on Children's Outcomes (with Rebecca Lessem)
How Heterogenous is Human Capital? A Unified Approach (with Christopher Taber and Rune Vejlin)