Ethan Lewis
Academic career
InstitutionDartmouth College, Associate Professor of Economics
FieldLabour Economics
Econometrics
Alma materUC Berkeley
Williams College
Information at IDEAS / RePEc
Websitehttps://www.dartmouth.edu/~ethang/

Ethan Lewis is a labor economist and Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. His fields of specialization are labor economics and econometrics with a specific interest in how U.S. labor markets have adapted to immigration and technological change.[1]

Prior to Dartmouth, Lewis was a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and an economist in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.[2]

Education

Lewis earned his Ph.D. in Economics from UC Berkeley in 2003. He graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in Economics from Williams College in 1995.[3]

Research

Lewis' research has been mentioned in the press numerous times by outlets such as The New York Times ,[4] The Wall Street Journal,[5] The Economist,[6] NPR,[7] and C-SPAN.[8]

In recent work, he has studied how immigration waves advanced the Second Industrial Revolution and a study of how manufacturing firms adapt production technology to employ less-skilled immigrants. He has also studied how native-born families react to increasing enrollments of immigrant children in public schools.[9]

Selected works

Professional activities

Lewis is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research[10] and the Center for Research and Analysis of Migration.[11] He serves on the Board of Editors for the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics[12] and the journal for Regional Science and Urban Economics.[13]

Personal

Ethan Lewis is married to Elizabeth Cascio, Associate Professor of Economics at Dartmouth. They live in Hanover, New Hampshire with their two children.[2]

References

  1. ^ Lewis, Ethan. "Ethan Lewis". VoxEU.org. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
  2. ^ a b "Ethan Gatewood Lewis's Home Page". www.dartmouth.edu. Retrieved 2017-06-04.
  3. ^ "Ethan Gatewood Lewis | Faculty Directory". dartmouth.edu. Retrieved 2017-06-04.
  4. ^ Schwartz, Nelson D.; Lohr, Steve (2018-09-02). "Companies Say Trump Is Hurting Business by Limiting Legal Immigration". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-10-10.
  5. ^ Leubsdorf, Ben (16 June 2017). "The Great Mariel Boatlift Debate: Does Immigration Lower Wages?". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2019-10-10.
  6. ^ "Kicking out immigrants doesn't raise wages". The Economist. 2017-02-04. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2019-10-10.
  7. ^ "Immigration's Impact On U.S. Jobs". NPR.org. Retrieved 2019-10-10.
  8. ^ "Ethan G. Lewis | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
  9. ^ "Ethan G. Lewis | IDEAS/RePEc". ideas.repec.org. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
  10. ^ "Ethan G. Lewis". www.nber.org. Retrieved 2019-10-10.
  11. ^ "CReAM: Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration". www.cream-migration.org. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
  12. ^ "American Economic Association". www.aeaweb.org. Retrieved 2019-10-10.
  13. ^ Regional Science and Urban Economics Editorial Board.
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