Professor of Economics at Dartmouth. I study the impacts of immigration and technological change.
Joined September 2015
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“Reopening the economy” without reopening schools is a fool’s errand: “The economy will not really ‘open up,’ and life will not return to normal, as long as parents don’t have any place to send our children during the day.” nytimes.com/2020/04/22/opini…
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Share of foreign-born workers in other industries critical to the coronavirus response migrationpolicy.org/research…
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Memo to President Trump buff.ly/2VpttHC Banning immigration will not save jobs - but it will make Americans poorer buff.ly/2Mynzjh
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Nice that my work with @shenhav_n and @econoshih is featured on the front page of the AEA webpage today! Thanks for the insightful article @AEAjournals
The DACA program significantly boosted high school attendance and completion among noncitizen migrants, reducing the education gap with their citizen peers, say @EliraKuka, @shenhav_n, and @econoshih in today's #ResearchHighlight aeaweb.org/research/daca-edu…
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It's true!
More than 1 in 4 doctors in the United States are immigrants
More than half of students enrolling in STEM grad programs are immigrants
Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than the native-born
Immigrants serve in the military
Immigrant entrepreneurs create jobs
'Immigration is an issue that affects all others. Immigration affects our health-care system. Immigration affects education. Immigration affects public safety, national security, our economy, our financial system' - S. Miller
via @NickMiroff @jdawsey1 washingtonpost.com/graphics/…
Ethan G. Lewis retweeted
Let's let in anybody from Hong Kong who wants to come. They are some of the most productive people in the world being oppressed by a brutal regime. Let them in.
Ethan G. Lewis retweeted
School desegregation is in the news.
I have worked on these questions with @eucascio @NoraEGordon @ethanglewis!
A thread on some of the things we learned about the Federal role in deseg in the 50s, 60s, 70s.
(Many have written on this; I summarize some of my own work here.)
Ethan G. Lewis retweeted
Tomorrow the U.S. Administration announces its latest scheme to bar immigrants —> thehill.com/homenews/adminis…
Remember: its last plan for "merit based" immigration concealed the fact that it would have *reduced* the number of university grads by 18% —> cgdev.org/blog/how-trump-adm…
Ethan G. Lewis retweeted
Coming up on @Morning_Joe with more on our exclusive reporting.
Emails show Trump administration was scrambling and failing spectacularly to link 2000+ separated parents and kids *the same day* they claimed they had a "central database" to reunite them. nbcnews.com/politics/immigra…
Ethan G. Lewis retweeted
Economists studying migration:
There's a small, top-end conference on migration economics at @Stanford in September, run by three of the very best: @melaniemorten, @ethanglewis, & Ran Abramitzky.
Open call for papers, due May 15th, here (Session 13)--> site.stanford.edu
Ethan G. Lewis retweeted
Congratulations to Jonathan Zinman, appointed the R. Stephen Cheheyl Professor of Economics. “This appointment as a named chair acknowledges Jon’s outstanding research contributions in behavioral economics,” says @NinaPavcnik, chair of @DartmouthEcon. economics.dartmouth.edu/prof…
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A new article in @BarronsOnline highlights research done by @jimfeyrer correctly predicting that the aging of the baby boomers would lead to a slowdown in productivity growth and suggests that the aging of the millenials might reverse this trend. barrons.com/articles/how-mil…
Ethan G. Lewis retweeted
The world has more guest workers than the entire labor force of Poland. The economic effects on households are hard to measure. My new paper:
“Measuring the Spatial Misallocation of Labor: The Returns to India-Gulf Guest Work in a Natural Experiment”
cgdev.org/publication/measur…
Ethan G. Lewis retweeted
Apropos of nothing, seems like a relevant fact right now. Immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than native born Americans. hamiltonproject.org/assets/f…
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This is despicable, and those responsible must be held accountable. I’m ashamed to have leaders who hold human beings with such contempt.
A migrant child in U.S. custody has died in New Mexico, Customs and Border Protection officials said wapo.st/2QQIul9
Ethan G. Lewis retweeted
Yet another study of the Mariel Boatlift is making the rounds.
I'll discuss it after a recap of the recent history of this debate.
*Deep dive alert* -->
Ethan G. Lewis retweeted
Out today in the December issue of @Pop_Council #PDRjournal:
"Deterring Emigration with Foreign Aid: An Overview of Evidence from Low‐Income Countries" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
You'll be hearing a lot more from my awesome co-author, @hpostel
