Aine Seitz McCarthy
Biographic Data
| ID | 6380845 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aine Seitz McCarthy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aine Seitz |
| FAMILY NAME | McCarthy |
| SIGNATURE | MCCARTHY A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lewis & Clark College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3273-4837 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Strategic responses to disparities in spousal desired fertility
In sub-Saharan Africa, the gap in fertility preferences between men and women may influence household fertility outcomes as men usually desire more children and have more intra-household bargaining power. We estimate the effect of an informational family planning program that randomizes the inclusion of husbands on fertility preferences (desired additional children) in rural Tanzania. Surprisingly, husbands who participated in joint family planni…
Enhancing agency and empowerment in agricultural development projects
Development interventions increasingly include women's empowerment and gender equality among their objectives, but evaluating their impact has been stymied by the lack of measures that are comparable across interventions. This paper synthesizes the findings of 11 mixed-methods impact evaluations of agricultural development projects from South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa that were part of the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, Phase 2 (GAAP2…
Age and Agency
Understanding the effectiveness of programs designed to empower women is important for development policy, and critically important in places with historically unequal gender norms. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of a multidimensional program on women’s empowerment in northern Tanzania, where our study sample is among the pastoralist and traditionally patriarchal Maasai tribe. The multidimensional approach of the program included various c…
Water, walls, and bicycles
In this study, we produce a valid and consistent variable for socioeconomic status (SES) at the household level with census microdata from ten developing countries available from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series—International (IPUMS-I), the world's largest census database. We use principal components analysis to compute a wealth index based on asset ownership, utilities, and dwelling characteristics. We validate the index by verifying s…
Multiplying Siblings
The question of whether large families have a subsequent negative impact on child health, education, and welfare is of pressing concern for development and public health policy. We tackle this question by empirically exploring whether parents face a trade-off between increasing the size of their family and investing in their children. Using data from a rural sub-district in Bangladesh (the 1996 Matlab Health and Socioeconomic Survey), we estimate…
Intimate partner violence and family planning decisions
Women, power and consciousness
Intimate partner violence and family planning decisions
Enhancing agency and empowerment in agricultural development projects
Development interventions increasingly include women's empowerment and gender equality among their objectives, but evaluating their impact has been stymied by the lack of measures that are comparable across interventions. This paper synthesizes the findings of 11 mixed-methods impact evaluations of agricultural development projects from South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa that were part of the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, Phase 2 (GAAP2…
Age and Agency
Understanding the effectiveness of programs designed to empower women is important for development policy, and critically important in places with historically unequal gender norms. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of a multidimensional program on women’s empowerment in northern Tanzania, where our study sample is among the pastoralist and traditionally patriarchal Maasai tribe. The multidimensional approach of the program included various c…
Women, power and consciousness
Intimate partner violence and family planning decisions
Water, walls, and bicycles
In this study, we produce a valid and consistent variable for socioeconomic status (SES) at the household level with census microdata from ten developing countries available from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series—International (IPUMS-I), the world's largest census database. We use principal components analysis to compute a wealth index based on asset ownership, utilities, and dwelling characteristics. We validate the index by verifying s…
Multiplying Siblings
The question of whether large families have a subsequent negative impact on child health, education, and welfare is of pressing concern for development and public health policy. We tackle this question by empirically exploring whether parents face a trade-off between increasing the size of their family and investing in their children. Using data from a rural sub-district in Bangladesh (the 1996 Matlab Health and Socioeconomic Survey), we estimate…
Enhancing agency and empowerment in agricultural development projects
Development interventions increasingly include women's empowerment and gender equality among their objectives, but evaluating their impact has been stymied by the lack of measures that are comparable across interventions. This paper synthesizes the findings of 11 mixed-methods impact evaluations of agricultural development projects from South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa that were part of the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, Phase 2 (GAAP2…
Age and Agency
Understanding the effectiveness of programs designed to empower women is important for development policy, and critically important in places with historically unequal gender norms. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of a multidimensional program on women’s empowerment in northern Tanzania, where our study sample is among the pastoralist and traditionally patriarchal Maasai tribe. The multidimensional approach of the program included various c…
Strategic responses to disparities in spousal desired fertility
In sub-Saharan Africa, the gap in fertility preferences between men and women may influence household fertility outcomes as men usually desire more children and have more intra-household bargaining power. We estimate the effect of an informational family planning program that randomizes the inclusion of husbands on fertility preferences (desired additional children) in rural Tanzania. Surprisingly, husbands who participated in joint family planni…
Sociology (6 works) · Population (4 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Demography (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (3 works) · Political science (3 works)