Ethan G. Lewis Explained

Ethan Lewis
Institution:	Dartmouth College, Associate Professor of Economics
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Website:	https://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

• Ethan Lewis. "Immigration, skill mix, and capital skill complementarity." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 126 (2), 1029-1069
• P Beaudry, M Doms, E Lewis. "Should the personal computer be considered a technological revolution? Evidence from US metropolitan areas." Journal of Political Economy 118 (5), 988-1036
• E Cascio, N Gordon, E Lewis, S Reber. "Paying for progress: Conditional grants and the desegregation of southern schools." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 125 (1), 445-482
• P Beaudry, E Lewis. "Do male-female wage differentials reflect differences in the return to skill? Cross-city evidence from 1980-2000." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 6 (2), 178-94

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.

References

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