Ethan G. Lewis

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Ethan Lewis
Academic career
Institution Dartmouth College, Associate Professor of Economics
Field Labour Economics
Econometrics
Alma mater UC Berkeley
Williams College
Information at IDEAS / RePEc
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]

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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]

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Elizabeth Cascio is an applied economist and currently a Professor of Economics who holds the DeWalt H. 1921 and Marie H. Ankeny Professorship in Economic Policy at Dartmouth College. Her research interests are in labor economics and public economics, and focus on the economic impact of policies affecting education in the United States. She is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research associate at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics, and Co-editor of the Journal of Human Resources.

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Jeanne Lafortune is a Canadian economist who currently works as an Full Professor in Economics and Director of Research at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. She is also a researcher at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, which is a global research center that aims to reduce poverty and improve life quality of people in the Caribbean and Latin America. Lafortune holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her research interests focus on three main fields, including economic history, family and development economics.

Immigration to the United States has many effects on the culture and politics of the United States.

References

  1. ↑ Lewis, Ethan. "Ethan Lewis". VoxEU.org. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
  2. 1 2 "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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