Kate Orkin

New Resources

Can rural public works affect agricultural wages? Evidence from India, CSAE working paper
The Determinants of Earnings Inequalities: Panel data evidence from South Africa, CSAE working paper
CSAE Research Summary 2012
Financial Architecture and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism in Tanzania, CSAE working paper
Media Freedom and Democracy: Complements or Substitutes in the Fight against Corruption?, CSAE working paper
Market Integration and Border Effects in Eastern Africa, CSAE working paper
How to improve knowledge and take-up of public services by the poor: The case of the RSBY National Health Insurance in India, iiG Briefing Paper 20

CSAE and Oriel College

Biography

Kate is a DPhil candidate in Development Studies, supervised by Professor Stefan Dercon and Dr Laura Camfield. Her doctoral research is in the economics and political economy of primary education. She examines how sickness and involvement in work affect schooling participation. She also examines the effects of three education policy initiatives – prohibitions on grade repetition, full day (rather than half day) schooling and mother tongue instruction – on participation and achievement.

Kate holds an MPhil in Development Studies from Oxford, where she was a South-African Rhodes Scholar, and a BSocSci (Hons) Economics from the University of Cape Town. She is a Research Associate at Young Lives, a longitudinal household-based survey of children in four countries, where she was part of the team which designed a survey of schools attended by Young Lives children in Ethiopia. She has worked for the World Bank Development Research Group and on a CSAE-iiG-IFPRI evaluation of an intervention to improve aspirations.