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Craig McIntosh is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research contributions primarily fall within the broad field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with 25 publications to their name. Subfields of study include Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research, Epidemiology, Finance, and Soil Science.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, emphasizing Microfinance and Financial Inclusion, Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare, Banking Stability, Regulation and Efficiency, Agricultural Risk and Resilience, Child Nutrition and Water Access, HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk, and ICT Impact and Policies.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Craig McIntosh include:

  • Using household grants to benchmark the cost effectiveness of a USAID workforce readiness program, 2022, Journal of Development Economics
  • Can Mobile-Linked Bank Accounts Bolster Savings? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Sri Lanka, 2020, The Review of Economics and Statistics
  • The Impact of Commercial Rainfall Index Insurance: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia, 2020, American Journal of Agricultural Economics
  • Economic vulnerability, violence, and sexual risk factors for HIV among female sex workers in Tijuana, Mexico, 2022, AIDS and Behavior
  • Using Communications Technology to Promote Democratic Participation: Experimental Evidence from South Africa, 2022, Economic Development and Cultural Change

Frequent co-authors with whom Craig McIntosh has collaborated include:

  • Suresh de Mel
  • Ketki Sheth
  • Andrew Zeitlin
  • Lasse Brune
  • Emily Beam

The scientist regularly publishes in venues such as Harvard Dataverse, AEA Randomized Controlled Trials, SSRN Electronic Journal, arXiv (Cornell University), and the Journal of Development Economics.

Craig McIntosh has authored a book titled Asset Transfers and Anti-Poverty Programs: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania, published in 2022 by World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks.

Best Publications

  • Cash or Condition? Evidence from a Cash Transfer Experiment

    Sarah Baird;Craig McIntosh;Berk Ozler

  • Competition and microfinance

    Craig McIntosh;Bruce Wydick

  • The short-term impacts of a schooling conditional cash transfer program on the sexual behavior of young women.

    Sarah Baird;Ephraim Chirwa;Craig McIntosh;Berk Ozler

  • How Rising Competition Among Microfinance Institutions Affects Incumbent Lenders

    Craig McIntosh;Alain de Janvry;Elisabeth Sadoulet

  • The ecological footprint of poverty alleviation: evidence from Mexico's oportunidades program.

    Jennifer Marie Alix-Garcia;Craig McIntosh;Katharine R.E. Sims;Jarrod R. Welch

  • The supply- and demand-side impacts of credit market information

    Alain de Janvry;Craig McIntosh;Elisabeth Sadoulet

  • When the money runs out: do cash transfers have sustained effects on human capital accumulation ?

    Sarah Jane Baird;Craig Mcintosh;Berk Özler

  • Productivity, credit, risk, and the demand for weather index insurance in smallholder agriculture in Ethiopia

    Craig McIntosh;Alexander Sarris;Fotis Papadopoulos

  • Credit Information Systems in Less Developed Countries: A Test with Microfinance in Guatemala

    Jill Luoto;Craig McIntosh;Bruce Wydick

  • The effectiveness of the US endangered species act: An econometric analysis using matching methods

    Paul J. Ferraro;Craig McIntosh;Monica Ospina

  • THE GREAT MEXICAN EMIGRATION

    Gordon H Hanson;Craig McIntosh

  • Optimal Design of Experiments in the Presence of Interference

    Sarah Baird;J. Aislinn Bohren;Craig McIntosh;Berk Özler

  • Microfinance and Home Improvement: Using Retrospective Panel Data to Measure Program Effects on Fundamental Events

    Craig McIntosh;Gonzalo Villaran;Bruce Wydick

  • Is The Mediterranean The New Rio Grande? US And EU Immigration Pressures In The Long Run

    Gordon Hanson;Craig McIntosh

  • Estimating Treatment Effects from Spatial Policy Experiments: An Application to Ugandan Microfinance

    Craig McIntosh

  • Fair Trade and Free Entry: Can a Disequilibrium Market Serve as a Development Tool?

    Alain de Janvry;Craig McIntosh;Elisabeth Sadoulet

  • Designing cost-effective cash transfer programs to boost schooling among young women in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Sarah Baird;Craig McIntosh;Berk Ozler

  • Cash Or Condition ? Evidence From A Randomized Cash Transfer Program

    Berk Ozler;Craig Mcintosh;Sarah Baird

  • Voter information campaigns and political accountability: Cumulative findings from a preregistered meta-analysis of coordinated trials.

    Thad Dunning;Guy Grossman;Macartan Humphreys;Susan D. Hyde

  • Prompting Microfinance Borrowers to Save: A Field Experiment from Guatemala

    Jesse Atkinson;Alain de Janvry;Craig McIntosh;Elisabeth Sadoulet

  • Designing experiments to measure spillover effects

    Sarah Baird;J. Aislinn Bohren;J. Aislinn Bohren;Craig McIntosh;Berk Ozler

  • Replication data for: Is the Mediterranean the New Rio Grande? US and EU Immigration Pressures in the Long Run

    Gordon Hanson;Craig McIntosh

Frequent Co-Authors

Gail Hanson
Gail Hanson University of California, Riverside
Elisabeth Sadoulet
Elisabeth Sadoulet University of California, Berkeley
Christopher Woodruff
Christopher Woodruff University of Oxford
Alain de Janvry
Alain de Janvry University of California, Berkeley
Paul J. Ferraro
Paul J. Ferraro Johns Hopkins University
Nicole Immorlica
Nicole Immorlica Microsoft (United States)
Kevin Leyton-Brown
Kevin Leyton-Brown University of British Columbia
Charles M. Cleland
Charles M. Cleland New York University
Joanna Coast
Joanna Coast University of Bristol
Steffanie A. Strathdee
Steffanie A. Strathdee University of California, San Diego

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