We are excited to introduce Dr. Catherine Pakaluk as the third plenary speaker for the Association of Christian Economists Conference, happening July 17-19, 2025, in beautiful Santa Barbara, California.
The title for Dr. Pakalukā€™s talk is “There and Back Again: The Case for N=1 in Economics”
Catherine Ruth Pakaluk is an economist and associate professor at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Dr. Pakaluk is author of the acclaimed ethnography Hannahā€™s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth (Regnery, 2024), a multidisciplinary account of American women choosing to have large families against the global trend to sub-replacement fertility. Her work has been reviewed or covered in The New Yorker, Slate, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Fox News, and more. Pakaluk is the recipient of the 2015 Acton Institute’s Novak Award, and a 2023 winner of the Freedom and Opportunity Academic Prize from The Heritage Foundation. She received her doctorate in economics from Harvard University in 2010, where she studied with 2016 Nobel Laureate Oliver Hart. She is married to American philosopher Michael Pakaluk.