Gordon Howard Hanson (born August 5, 1964) is the Peter Wertheim Professor in Urban Policy at the

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Education

Hanson received his A.B. from

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in 1986 and his Ph.D. from

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in 1992, both in economics. His Ph.D. dissertation was entitled ''Industry agglomeration and trade in Mexico'', and his doctoral advisor was

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and was co-advised by

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Career

Hanson served on the faculty of the

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from 1998 to 2001. 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. He previously served as the acting dean of the

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. He joined the Harvard Kennedy School in 2020.

Research

Hanson's research focuses on, among other topics, the causes and effects of immigration to the

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. 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. He has also studied the effects of

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on industries and workers since the agreement was signed in the 1990s. 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

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was having adverse effects on parts of the American labor market. 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.

Honors, awards and editorial activities

Hanson is a research associate at the

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, and has been a fellow of the

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since 2005. Since 2015, he has been a co-editor of the ''

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''.

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