UCSD - The Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies

Craig McIntosh
Assistant Professor of Economics

UCSD, IR/PS
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0519
Office #1305

Phone: (858) 822-1125
Fax (858) 534-3939
Email: ctmcintosh@ucsd.edu

CURRICULUM VITAE
Education
Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley, Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2003.
M.A., U.C. Berkeley, Agricultural and Resource Economics, 1999.
B.A., U.C. Santa Cruz, Economics, 1993.

Employment
Assistant Professor of Economics, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, U.C. San Diego, July 2003 - Present.

Research Director, Foundation for International Community Assistance (FINCA), Uganda, 2000-01.

Research Intern, FINCA International Headquarters, Washington D.C., 1999.

Field researcher for development of Small-Business Enterprise Program, Bua'ale, Somalia, with International Rescue Committee, 1993-94.

Papers and Presentations
"Assessing the Impact of New Products in Microfinance Lending," Nov. 2002. Presented at
Western Economics Association International Conference, Seattle, June 2002 and the North-Eastern Universities Development Conference, Williams College, Oct. 2002.

"Competition and Microfinance," with Bruce Wydick. Presented at Western Economics
Association International Conference. Submitted for publication.

"An Empirical Analysis of the Effects of Competition in African Lending Markets," with
Alain de Janvry & Elisabeth Sadoulet. Submitted for publication.

"Product Proliferation Under Competitive Pressure." Presented to the Uganda Institute of
Bankers, Kampala, March 2001.

"Spatial Matching to Control for Non-Random Treatment Assignment," Working Paper.

"Investment, Inequality, and Risk in a Closed, Credit-Constrained Economy," Working Paper.

"Testing for Racial Discrimination in Asset Markets: An Application to Apartheid-Era South
Africa," Working Paper.

"The Empirics of Affirmative Action," Working Paper.

Honors and Awards
BASIS Three-year research grant from USAID for work on rural credit markets, October 2002.
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of California Berkeley, 2002.
Fulbright IIE Scholarship, Uganda, 2000-01.
Berkeley Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1997-2002.
Phi Beta Kappa, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1993.
Honors in Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1993.