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.
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.
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.
Lewis is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Center for Research and Analysis of Migration. He serves on the Board of Editors for the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics and the journal for Regional Science and Urban Economics.
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.