Craig McIntosh, University of California

Education

Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley, 2003 (agricultural and resource economics)
M.A., U.C. Berkeley, 1999 (agricultural and resource economics)
B.A., U.C. Santa Cruz, 1993 (economics)

Biography

McIntosh is a development economist whose work focuses on program evaluation. His main research interest is the design of institutions which promote the provision of financial services to micro-entrepreneurs. He has conducted field evaluations of innovations in microfinance in Central America and East Africa, and is currently working on projects analyzing the impact of credit bureaus in Guatemala and the introduction of mobile telephony in rural Rwanda.

Programs and Centers

International Development and Nonprofit Management Career Track
International Economics Career Track

Perspectives

McIntosh can comment on issues related to credit, insurance, and savings markets in developing countries, as well as on how to evaluate policy impacts. This includes how to design and conduct randomized field trials, how to design quasi-experimental impact assessments, and how institutional data or retrospective surveys may be used to conduct an ex-post assessment.