Ethan G. Lewis

Ethan Lewis
Academic career
Field	Labour Economics Econometrics
Institution	Dartmouth College, Associate Professor of Economics
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]

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, who is also a 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. "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.