Overview
Peter Weil Dean's Professor of Urban Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and NBER research associate (formerly at UC San Diego). Works on international trade, immigration, and their labor market consequences. Core contributor to the Autor-Dorn-Hanson "China Syndrome" research program.
Key Contributions / Features
- China Syndrome (Autor, Dorn, and Hanson 2013a): Co-developed the Bartik-IV strategy for identifying local labor market effects of Chinese import competition; foundational paper for the China trade shock literature.
- China trade shock synthesis (Autor, Dorn, and Hanson 2016): Review article in Annual Review of Economics synthesizing the ADH research program, formalizing the gravity-model identification framework, and presenting the complete Table 4 CZ-level results, Figure 7 transfer cascade, and welfare assessment. See China Trade Shock.
- Manufacturing decline and family structure (Autor, Dorn, and Hanson 2019): Extended the China shock design with gender-specific instruments, causally linking male-intensive trade exposure to male idleness, premature mortality, declining marriage, and rising child poverty. See Marriage Market and Deaths of Despair.
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