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Gordon H. Hanson,
Professor of Economics; Director, Center on Pacific Economies

Office Phone:
858-822-5087

Email:
gohanson@ucsd.edu

Degrees:
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992 (economics)

Languages:
Spanish

Updated:

Gordon H. Hanson

Hanson is the director of the Center on Pacific Economies and is a professor of economics at UC San Diego, where he holds faculty positions in the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and the Department of Economics. Hanson is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and co-editor of the Journal of Development Economics. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a senior research fellow at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development. Professor Hanson has published extensively in the top academic journals of the economics discipline. His current research examines the international migration of skilled labor, the economics of illegal immigration, the relationship between business cycles and global outsourcing, and international trade in motion pictures. In recent work, he has studied the impact of trade and immigration on wages, the origins of political opposition to immigration, and the implications of China's growth for the export performance of Mexico and other developing countries.

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