Ethan G. Lewis
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.
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.
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.Research
Lewis' research has been mentioned in the press numerous times by outlets such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, NPR, and C-SPAN.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.
Selected works
Ethan Lewis. "Immigration, skill mix, and capital skill complementarity." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 126, 1029-1069P Beaudry, M Doms, E Lewis. "Should the personal computer be considered a technological revolution? Evidence from US metropolitan areas." Journal of Political Economy 118, 988-1036E Cascio, N Gordon, E Lewis, S Reber. "Paying for progress: Conditional grants and the desegregation of southern schools." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 125, 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, 178-94''