Rate My Professor Ethan Lewis

Ethan Gatewood Lewis is a Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College, where he has served since 2006, advancing from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor in 2012 and full Professor in 2019. He currently holds the position of Vice Chair of the Economics Department since July 2023. Lewis earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2003, with fields in labor economics and econometrics, and his B.A. in Economics magna cum laude from Williams College in 1995, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Prior to Dartmouth, he worked as an Economist in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia from 2003 to 2006 and served as a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco from 2007 to 2009. His research examines how U.S. labor markets adjust to immigration and technological change, including how firms adapt production technology to employ less-skilled immigrants, immigrant-native substitutability, and the role of language. Key publications include 'Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy: Evidence from the Mexican Bracero Exclusion' (with Michael A. Clemens and Hannah M. Postel, American Economic Review, 2018), 'People and Machines: A Look at the Evolving Relationship Between Capital and Skill in Manufacturing 1860-1930 Using Immigration Shocks' (with Jeanne Lafortune and Jose Tessada, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019), 'Distributing the Green (Cards): Permanent Residency and Income Taxes After the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986' (with Elizabeth Cascio, Journal of Public Economics, 2019), 'Immigration, Skill Mix, and Capital-Skill Complementarity' (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2011), and 'Should the PC be Considered a Technological Revolution? Evidence from US Metropolitan Areas' (with Paul Beaudry and Mark Doms, Journal of Political Economy, 2010). Lewis has received numerous awards, including Russell Sage Foundation Presidential Grants in 2021 and 2023, Excellence in Refereeing Awards from the American Economic Review (2013, 2018) and American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2021), and fellowships such as the Russell Ladd Newcomb 1926 Fellowship (2019) and Senior Faculty Fellowship (2016).

Lewis contributes to the academic community as Co-Editor of the Journal of Human Resources since 2021, Associate Editor of the Journal of Labor Economics since 2019, and former Board member of Regional Science and Urban Economics (2016-2023) and American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. He also serves on the Russell Sage Foundation Advisory Committee since 2017. His work has appeared in leading journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Review, and Journal of Political Economy, influencing discussions on immigration's labor market effects and technological adaptation.