Kurukshetra, Haryana, India

kathryn (katya) vasilaky


seminars and conferences



Conference Speaker, When the pickings are good: Estimating the dynamic effects of pay for performance for workers in the field, LACEA/LAMES Annual Meeting 2023 Bogotá, Colombia, 11/15/23

Invited Speaker, What Works? Exploring Solutions for Water Conservation in Agriculture, World Bank's Office of the Chief Economist of the Sustainable Development Practice Group, 6/13/23

Conference Speaker, The effects of bonus pay when working in a team; evidence from strawberry pickers in the field, Joint Initiative for Latin American Experimental Economics (JILAEE), 2/3/22

Seminar Speaker, The effects of bonus pay when working in a team; evidence from strawberry pickers in the field. Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics (CERE), 10/13/21

Conference Speaker, Revealing Group Choices: the Demand for Index Insurance, Experimental Economics Association, Los Angeles, California, 10/10/19

Conference Speaker, Revealing Group Choices: the Demand for Index Insurance, Advances in Field Experiments, Chicago, Illinois, 9/19

Conference Speaker, Group Heterogeneity and the Demand for Index Insurance, Experimental Economics Association, Dijon, France, 9/19



Speaker, Learning Digitally via Mediated Farmer Edutainment in India. French Association for Environmental and Resource Economics, Axes-en-Provence, France, 09/30/18

Seminar Speaker, Learning Digitally via Mediated Farmer Edutainment in India. University of Montpelier, France, 09/28/18



Seminar Speaker, A Generalized Ridge Regression Using an Iterative Solution: the Inverse Problem in Regression Analysis with a Stopping Rule, New York University, Applied Statistics, PRIISM. Slides, New York, NY 12/6/16

Workshop Speaker, From RCT’s to A/B: Choosing Lean Methods for Evaluation, Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning in Development, FHI360, Washington DC, 10/3/16

Speaker, It's Raining, it's Pouring? A Web and SMS Application in Flask and Twilio to call Farmers, Pygotham, New York, New York, 7/16/16

Seminar Speaker, Learning Digitally: Evaluating the Impact of Farmer Training via Mediated Videos, Paris School of Economics, Paris, France, 4/15/16

Conference Speaker, Towards a Deeper Understanding of Female Competitiveness and the Gender Gap: Evidence from Patrilocal and Matrilocal Cultures, CSAE Conference 2016: Economic Development in Africa, St Catherine's College, Oxford University, 3/20/16

Chair of Networks Session, and Presenter, Informal Networks within Index Insurance: Randomizing Social Distance in Group Insurance, at SEEDEC Choice Lab, Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway, 12/2015

Speaker, Tech, Development Economics, and Experiment Design at Reboot.org, Reboot, New York, New York, 11/11/15

Speaker, An Iterative Approach to Inverse Problems using Python's NumPy, Pydata, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, New York, 11/11/15

Conference Speaker, Learning Digitally: Evaluating the Impact of Farmer Training via Mediated Videos, Northest Universities Development Consortium, Providence, Rhode Island, 11/8/15

Conference Speaker, North-American Economic Science Association, Motherhood, Sisterhood and Adolescence: Is Competitiveness Socialized? Economics Science Association, Dallas, Texas, 10/24/15

Speaker, An Iterative Approach to Inverse Problems using Python's Numpy, Video Pygotham, New York NY 8/15/15

Seminar Speaker, As Good as the Networks They Keep? Mechanisms of Information Exchange in Social Networks in Rural Uganda, Microsoft Research New York, New York 2015, 8/15

Speaker, Networks and Sustainable Development, Pint of Science, New York NY, 5/18/15

Conference Speaker, As Good as the Networks They Keep? Mechanisms of Information Exchange in Social Networks in Rural Uganda, CSAE Conference 2015: Economic Development in Africa, St Catherine's College, Oxford University, 3/24/15

Seminar Speaker, Informal Networks within Index Insurance: Randomizing Social Distance in Group Insurance, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), The French National Institute for Agricultural Research UMR LAMETA, Montpellier, France, 12/19/14

Seminar Speaker, As Good as the Networks They Keep? Mechanisms of Information Exchange in Social Networks in Rural Uganda, Paris Environmental and Economics Seminar, Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, Paris, France, 11/6/14

Conference Speaker, Mothers, Daugthers and Sisters, Is Competitiveness Socialized? at The Choice Lab, Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway, 10/2014

Mediator and Organizer, Postdoctoral Data Science Panel at Columbia University, with Kathy Copic, Columbia Medical Center, New York, New York, 9/17/14

Speaker, The Power of Power; Pitfalls in Experimental Research Design, at the Data Gotham conference, at the New York Academy of Medicine, New York, New York, 9/26/2013

Conference Speaker, The Effects of School Quality on Fertility in a Transition Economy, at the Midwest International Economic Development Conference Minneapolis, MN, 5/2009

Conference Speaker, The Effects of School Quality on Fertility in a Transition Economy, at the Population Association of America (PAA) Detroit, MI, 5/2009

Seminar Speaker, DYNARE: Bayesian Estimation in Matlab, at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, 4/2005

Seminar Speaker, Єдиний економічний простір (Single Economic Space), at the Shevchenko Scientific Society, New York, New York, 1/2004