Tara McIndoe-Calder

Dr. Tara McIndoe-Calder is a Senior Research Officer at the ESRI. Her research interests are in applied microeconomics (firms and households) and macro-micro linkages. 

Tara has a particular interest in the joint distribution of household income, spending and wealth, including labour market dynamics, spending and saving decisions, indebtedness, and inequality. She has worked on credit risk modelling and Small and Medium Enterprise credit allocation as well as a broad range of development economics issues including factor flows, trade, migration, capital flows and macro finance (inflation, government revenue, financial institutions). 

In her current role, Tara will have responsibility for research on enterprise development, housing and household financing. 

Tara has published articles in: European Economic Review; Applied Economics; Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics; Policy Studies; Irish Studies for International Affairs; Economic and Social Review; Central Bank of Ireland Quarterly Bulletin signed articles; Central Bank of Ireland Economic Letter series; Central Bank of Ireland Research Technical Paper series; IZA Discussion Paper; IIIS Discussion paper series. She has published book chapters and books on labour, migration and demographics in Ireland and hyperinflation in Zimbabwe. 

Tara is the secretary of the Irish Society for Women in Economics (ISWE), a standing committee of the Irish Economic Association that works to enhance the diversity and representation of the profession in Ireland.

She completed a B.A. in Economics at Trinity College Dublin, an M.Phil. in Economics at the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. at Trinity College Dublin. She is a Rhodes Scholar (Hertford and Zimbabwe 2006).