Draft:Lydia Cox
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Comment: How is WP:NPROF met? Two of the papers and the interview cited are non-independent of the subject, meaning they don't count toward notability criteria. ~Liancetalk 18:59, 12 March 2025 (UTC)
- Comment: Assistant professors usually do not pass WP:PROF; the time they need to demonstrate sufficient academic impact is comparable to the time they need to achieve tenure. Her citation record [1] currently does not demonstrate that impact and we have no major international prizes that would suggest that she is already a star at the level that might bypass her assistant status. I don't think there is a chance for notability yet; the best hope is to wait a few years. —David Eppstein (talk) 00:04, 13 March 2025 (UTC)
Lydia Cox is an American economist. She has been an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 2023. She received a PhD in Economics from Harvard in 2022, advised by Marc Melitz and Pol Antras, and a BA in Economics from Stanford in 2014. She was made a fellow of the NBER in 2024.
Work
[edit]Lydia Cox is best known for her paper “The Long-Term Impact of Steel Tariffs on U.S. Manufacturing”. In 2002 and 2003, President George W. Bush placed tariffs on steel imports. Steel is an input into many products. When a tax is placed on an input, it distorts the production decisions of everyone who uses that input. The steel tariffs led to the loss of 168,000 jobs in the downstream sectors. Strikingly, the effects were persistent, failing to rebound after the tariffs were lifted. She attributes this to uncertainty over the imposition of future tariffs.[1][2]
Another paper by her (with Miguel Acosta) has studied the unequal effects of the U.S. tariff code. Within a given product category, the ad valorem tariff is consistently higher on lower-quality goods than on higher-quality goods. The authors attribute this to line-by-line negotiations during the 30s and 40s, with subsequent tariff reductions being done across larger product categories.[3][4]
References
[edit]- ^ Cox, Lydia, "The Long-Term Impact of Steel Tariffs on U.S. Manufacturing", manuscript, 2025, https://coxlydia.com/papers/cox_steel_tariffs.pdf
- ^ Beattie, Alan, "Biden's trade policy is crafted with political rewards in mind", December 12th, 2021, https://www.ft.com/content/bb220c2e-15c9-4f1f-a1b3-c578c57cd386
- ^ Acosta, Miguel and Lydia Cox, "The Regressive Nature of the U.S. Tariff Code: Origins and Implications", manuscript 2025, https://coxlydia.com/papers/AcostaCoxRegressive.pdf
- ^ Trade Talks, "How Poorer Americans Ended Up Paying For U.S. Tariffs", July 19, 2022, https://tradetalkspodcast.com/podcast/163-how-poorer-americans-ended-up-paying-for-us-tariffs/
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