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Aine Seitz McCarthy is an Associate Professor of Economics at Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon. She holds a PhD in Applied Economics from the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on the microeconomics of poverty alleviation, particularly in health, education, and women’s empowerment in East Africa. She employs experimental methods and econometric analysis to address policy-relevant questions, with notable fieldwork in Tanzania’s Simiyu region. Her work has been funded by entities like the European Union, Gates Foundation, and USAID.
Education: B.A. in Mathematics from Colby College, followed by policy research at the RAND Corporation. Her PhD work included contributions to the IPUMS-International data infrastructure project.
Research Interests: Development Economics, Health Economics, Econometrics, and Demography. She has conducted randomized control trials (RCTs) to evaluate family planning interventions and programs addressing women’s empowerment. Recent studies include analyzing spousal communication in fertility decisions and the impact of agricultural programs on agency in pastoralist communities.
Teaching: Courses include Principles of Economics, Economic Development, Econometrics, and Global Health Economics. She advises students, notably co-authoring with Rachel Pearlman on family size-education trade-offs in Bangladesh.
Grants & Collaborations: Funded by USAID’s Development Innovation Ventures, European Union, and Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab. Collaborations include district health officials in Tanzania and interdisciplinary teams on wealth index methodologies.
