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

Ethan Lewis is a labor economist. He works as an Associate 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]

Lewis is a member of the American Economic Association and Society of Labor Economists, and a research associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Center for Research and Analysis of Migration.[2]

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.[3]

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.[4]

Research

Lewis' research has been mentioned in the press numerous times by outlets such as the Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Economist and C-SPAN.[5]

His most recent work was a historical study of how immigration waves advanced the second Industrial Revolution and a study of how manufacturing firms adapt production technology to employ less-skilled immigrants. Lewis conducted research on the U.S. public education system, specifically on how native-born families react to increasing enrollments of immigrant children in public schools.[6]

His most cited works include a study of how machinery substituted for least-skilled workers and complemented middle-skilled workers at equipment and fabricated metal plants, published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics.[7] That speech has been cited 334 time according to Google Scholar)[8] and a study of the widening geographic distribution of Mexican immigrants and the effects of Mexican immigration on local labor markets across the country, published in the book Mexican immigration to the United States.[9]

Professional activities

He serves on the Board of Editors for the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics and the journal for Regional Science and Urban Economics, and is a referee for economics journals including the American Economic Review.[3]

Personal

Ethan Lewis is married to Elizabeth Cascio, Associate Professor of Economics at Dartmouth. They live in Hanover, New Hampshire with their two children.[3]

References

  1. ^ Lewis, Ethan. "Ethan Lewis". VoxEU.org. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
  2. ^ "CReAM: Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration". www.cream-migration.org. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
  3. ^ a b c "Ethan Gatewood Lewis's Home Page". www.dartmouth.edu. Retrieved 2017-06-04.
  4. ^ "Ethan Gatewood Lewis | Faculty Directory". dartmouth.edu. Retrieved 2017-06-04.
  5. ^ "Ethan G. Lewis | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
  6. ^ zimmermann@stlouisfed.org. "Ethan G. Lewis | IDEAS/RePEc". ideas.repec.org. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
  7. ^ Lewis, Ethan (2011-05-01). "Immigration, Skill Mix, and Capital Skill Complementarity". The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 126 (2): 1029–1069. doi:10.1093/qje/qjr011. ISSN 0033-5533.
  8. ^ "Ethan Lewis - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2017-06-04.
  9. ^ J, Borjas, George (2007-05-02). "Mexican Immigration to the United States". NBER.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link), cited 319 times
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