Kate Vyborny

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

Kate Vyborny is a DPhil candidate at the Department of Economics and St. Antony's College, working with Professor Marcel Fafchamps. She completed the MPhil in Economics at Oxford in 2008, supported by the Rhodes Scholarship. From 2005-2008 Kate worked on research and policy outreach on a range of development issues at the Center for Global Development and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Kate's research examines the impact and unintended consequences of various forms of government redistribution, and what we can learn for improving their effectiveness in developing countries. Her work uses data from Pakistan to explore this issue in three specific cases: 1. Testing whether and how social networks and patronage affect who receives government transfers and services; 2. Using a natural experiment to test whether community-targeted public cash transfers cause private donors to reduce their support, reducing the effectiveness of the cash transfer programme; 3. Testing the political determinants of the geographic distribution of the public procurement of wheat in Punjab, Pakistan.