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Gordon H. Hanson
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Gordon H. Hanson

Gordon H. Hanson holds the Pacific Economic Cooperation Chair in International Economic Relations at the University of California, San Diego, where he is Director of the Center on Emerging and Pacific Economies and has faculty positions in the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and the Department of Economics. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a co-editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics.

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Reports
August 2012
Understanding Mexico's Economic Underperformance
By  Gordon H. Hanson
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Reports
December 2009
The Economics and Policy of Illegal Immigration in the United States
By  Gordon H. Hanson

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Reports
August 2012

Understanding Mexico's Economic Underperformance

This report investigates the reasons behind Mexico’s lackluster economic growth over recent decades. The author identifies lines of argument to explain Mexico’s sluggish growth, assesses the importance of these factors, and offers a road map for confronting this disappointing growth record.

Reports
December 2009

The Economics and Policy of Illegal Immigration in the United States

An examination of illegal immigration's overall impact on the U.S. economy, which this report finds is negligible despite clear benefits for employers and unauthorized immigrants and slightly depressed wages for low-skilled native workers.