Gordon Hanson

For the Canadian politician, see Gordon William Hanson.
Gordon Hanson
Born
Gordon Howard Hanson

(1964-08-05) August 5, 1964 (age 60)
NationalityAmerican
Academic career
InstitutionHarvard Kennedy School
AwardsFellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Gordon Howard Hanson (born August 5, 1964)[1] is the Peter Wertheim Professor in Urban Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.[2]

Education

Hanson received his A.B. from Occidental College in 1986 and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992, both in economics.[1] His Ph.D. dissertation was entitled Industry agglomeration and trade in Mexico, and his doctoral advisor was Michael J. Piore and was co-advised by Paul Krugman.[3]

Career

Hanson served on the faculty of the University of Michigan from 1998 to 2001.[4] In 2001, he joined UCSD as a professor at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, a position he held until 2012. Since 2015, he has been the Pacific Economic Cooperation Chair in International Economic Relations at UCSD's School of Global Policy and Strategy.[1] He previously served as the acting dean of the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy.[5] He joined the Harvard Kennedy School in 2020.[2]

Research

Hanson's research focuses on, among other topics, the causes and effects of immigration to the United States.[4] For instance, his research has concluded that high-skilled immigrants benefit the U.S.'s economy through innovation, and that low-skilled immigrants do so through other means, including the fact that they are more willing to move to find work than native-born workers in the U.S.[6] He has also studied the effects of NAFTA on industries and workers since the agreement was signed in the 1990s.[7] In two papers, one released in 2013 and the other in 2016, Hanson, along with David Autor and David Dorn, concluded that trade between the U.S. and China was having adverse effects on parts of the American labor market.[8] Their 2016 study also found that these adverse effects existed in all developed countries, not just the U.S., and that they were larger than many economists thought possible.[9]

Honors, awards and editorial activities

Hanson is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and has been a fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor since 2005.[4] Since 2015, he has been a co-editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Gordon Hanson CV" (PDF). Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Gordon Hanson". Harvard Kennedy School. Retrieved 25 December 2021.
  3. ^ Hanson, Gordon (1992). Industry agglomeration and trade in Mexico (Dissertation). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hdl:1721.1/13177.
  4. ^ a b c "Gordon Hanson". IZA. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  5. ^ "Gordon Hanson". School of Global Policy and Strategy. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  6. ^ Matthews, Christopher (30 January 2013). "The Economics of Immigration: Who Wins, Who Loses and Why". Time. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  7. ^ Porter, Eduardo (29 March 2016). "Nafta May Have Saved Many Autoworkers' Jobs". New York Times. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  8. ^ Barro, Josh (28 January 2016). "So What Would It Mean to 'Beat China' on Trade?". New York Times. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  9. ^ "Trade in the balance". The Economist. 6 February 2016. Retrieved 2 April 2016.