

Kate Vyborny
Economist, South Asia Region Gender Innovation Lab, World Bank
Kate Vyborny is an Economist at the World Bank South Asia Region Gender Innovation Lab. She previously served as Associate Director of the DevLab at Duke and Research Scientist in the Department of Economics at Duke University. She completed my D.Phil. (Ph.D.) in the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford. Earlier in her career, she worked on research and policy outreach on aid, trade and development at the Center for Global Development and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She has also served as a visiting faculty member at the Lahore School of Economics and at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, a Fellow of the Center for Economic Research in Pakistan and the Consortium for Development Policy Research in Pakistan.
Recent work by Kate Vyborny
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How safe transport could unlock women’s labour force participation in Pakistan
A lack of safe transportation prevents women in urban Pakistan from entering the labour market. A programme providing subsidised, women-only transport was able to tap into a large pool of female workers, improving mobility and economic empowerment.
Published 27.03.25
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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
Published 25.09.23
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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
Published 23.03.23