Kate Vyborny

Associate Director, DevLab at Duke

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Kate Vyborny is Associate Director of the DevLab at Duke and Research Scientist in the Department of Economics at Duke University. She is also a visiting faculty member at the Lahore School of Economics and at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, and a Fellow of the Center for Economic Research in Pakistan and the Consortium for Development Policy Research in Pakistan. She holds a D.Phil. (Ph.D.) from the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford.

Recent work by Kate Vyborny

Simplifying communication dramatically increased job application rates on a platform in Pakistan

Lowering the psychological cost of initiating job applications dramatically increases application rates without lowering the average return to each job application

Labour Markets

Maniha Aftab Aiman Farrukh Erica Field Robert Garlick Sarah Hussain Lala Rukh Khan Nivedhitha Subramanian Kate Vyborny

Published 25.09.23

Improving social assistance through data-driven targeting: Evidence from Pakistan

Data-driven targeting can make social assistance less subject to favouritism, more pro-poor, and more politically sustainable

Social Protection

Muhammad Haseeb Kate Vyborny

Published 23.03.23

Kate Vyborny

Recent work by Kate Vyborny

Simplifying communication dramatically increased job application rates on a platform in Pakistan

Improving social assistance through data-driven targeting: Evidence from Pakistan