Aine Seitz McCarthy
Associate Professor of Economics
Aine McCarthy joined the Economics Department at Lewis & Clark in 2016. She completed her PhD in applied economics at University of Minnesota.
Professor McCarthy’s work focuses on the microeconomics of poverty alleviation: health, education and women’s empowerment. She uses experimental methods and econometric analysis to address policy-relevant research questions. Her research has been published in top development economics journals including World Development, Agricultural Economics and Journal of Development Studies. Professor McCarthy has conducted extensive fieldwork in East Africa, including collaborating with district health officials to design and implement a randomized control trial in the Simiyu region of Tanzania. Her work has been funded by the European Union, Gates Foundation, International Livestock Research Institute, and Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab.
During graduate school in Minnesota, she worked in data infrastructure on the IPUMS-International project. Prior to that, she worked in policy research at the RAND Corporation and majored in mathematics (and hiking in the Maine woods) at Colby College.