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Craig McIntoshAssistant 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 Professor Craig McIntosh specializes in quantitative impact analysis, and the development of credit markets for the poor in Latin America and East Africa. McIntosh is currently investigating the role of credit bureaus in promoting economic mobility for the poor in Latin America. He is also analyzing the relationship between business scale and profitability in destitute economic environments, and the impact of the use of different affirmative actions measures on student body composition. McIntosh can comment on emerging trends in the microfinance sector, and on techniques for using institutional data and spatial software to perform rigorous analysis of the impact of innovations in lending technology. He also has expertise in the political and economic development of East Africa. McIntosh received his Ph.D. in agricultural economics from U.C. Berkeley. Research “Competition and Microfinance” with Bruce Wydick, Journal of Development Economics 78, December 2005, pp. 271-298. “How Rising Competition among Microfinance Institutions Affects Incumbent Lenders”, with Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet , The Economic Journal 115, October 2005, pp. 987-1004. “Credit Information Systems in Less-Developed Countries: A Test with Microfinance in Guatemala”, with Jill Luoto and Bruce Wydick, forthcoming (January 2007), Economic Development and Cultural Change. “Has Better Health Care Led To Higher HIV Prevalence In Sub-Saharan Africa?”. “Using Polls to Measure Pork”, with Jacob Allen. “The Supply and Demand Side Impact of Credit Market Information”, with Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet. “The Effectiveness of Listing under the U.S. Endangered Species Act: An Econometric Analysis Using Matching Methods”, with Paul Ferraro and Monica Ospina. "Identifying Non-linearities In Fixed Effects Models" with Wolfram Schlenker. “The Empirics of Affirmative Action”. “The Use of Two Control Groups in Quasi-Experimental Program Evaluation”.
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