Ana Vaz

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 St Antony's College

Biography

Ana is a Doctoral Student in the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford. Her doctoral research focuses on the role of network effects in expanding the reach of voter education campaigns. Using data from a field experiment conducted in Mozambique during the 2009 elections, she is trying to estimate the effects of interpersonal influence within the household, and the reinforcement and diffusion network effects at the village level. She completed the MPhil at Oxford in 2009 and she holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Porto, Portugal (2002). Before commencing her graduate studies at Oxford, she worked in Porto both as a tax consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers and as a teaching assistant at the Portuguese Catholic University.