Sanders D Korenman

Sanders Korenman has been a member of the Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs faculty since 1996. He served as Senior Economist for labor, welfare, and education for President Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers and was a member of the Board on Children, Youth, and Families of the National Academy of Sciences. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has been appointed for 2021-22 as a member of the Panel on Evaluation and Improvements to the Supplemental Poverty Measure of the Committee on National Statistics, National Academies of Science, Technology and Medicine. His recent research includes studies of the impact of health insurance benefits on poverty, with Professor Dahlia Remler and Dr. Rosemary Hyson, supported by several grants from the Russell Sage Foundation. He has also researched the relationships between school engagement and teenage childbearing in NYC, in collaboration with Professor Frank Heiland and Dr. Cristina Yunzal-Butler of the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. He teaches courses in the economic analysis of public policy, economics of the public sector and public finance, poverty and social policy, and research methods.

Professor Korenman received his PhD from Harvard University and his AB from the University of California, Berkeley, both in Economics.