publications
Baul, Tushi, Dean Karlan, Kentaro Toyama, Kathryn Vasilaky Improving Smallholder Agriculture via Video-Based Group Extension (2024) Journal of Development Economics. Vol. 169, No. 103267.
Vox Dev Coverage
Flory, Jeffrey, Kenneth Leonard, Magda Tsaneva, Kathryn Vasilaky, How social structure shapes female competition throughout her lifetime (2023) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 216, 433-456.
Vasilaky, Kathryn and Harou, Aurelie, and Alfredo, Katherine and Kapur, Ishita. What works for water conservation? Evidence from a field experiment in India, (2023) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 119, 102802.
World Bank Coverage
Hamilton, S. and Richards, T. and Shafran, A. and Vasilaky, K. Farm labor productivity and the impact of mechanization, (2022) American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 104 (4), 1435-1459.
Ovaisi, Zohreh, Kathryn Vasilaky, Elena Zheleva. Propensity-independent Bias Recovery in Offline Learning-to-rank Systems, (2021) 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR).
Vasilaky, Kathryn, Michelle Brock, Power(ful) Guidelines for Experimental Economists, (2020) Journal of the Experimental Science Association, 6, 189–212.
Ovaisi, Zohreh, Ragib Ahsan, Yifan Zhang, Kathryn Vasilaky, Elena Zheleva, Correcting for Selection Bias in Learning-to-rank Systems, (2020) Proceedings of the 2020 World Wide Web Conference (WWW/WebConf).
Enenkel, M., M.E. Brown, J.V. Vogt, J.L.McCarty, A.Reid Bell, D. Guha-Sapir, W.A. Dorigo, K. Vasilaky, M. Svoboda, R. Bonifacio, S. Voigt, M. Anderson, C. Funk, D.E. Osgood, C. Hain, P. Vinck, Why predict climate hazards if we need to understand impacts? Mobile technologies could put humans back into the equation, (2020) Climatic Change.
Buehren, Niklas, and Markus Goldstein, Kenneth Leonard, Joao Montalvao, Kathryn Vasilaky, Spillover Effects of Girls’ Empowerment on Brothers’ Competitiveness: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Uganda,(2020) Economic Development and Cultural Change, 70(2).
Vasilaky, Kathryn, Sofía Martínez Sáez, Radost Stanimirova, Daniel Osgood, Perceptions of Farm Size Heterogeneity and Demand for Group Index Insurance, (2020) Games.
Vasilaky, Kathryn, Rahel Diro, Michael Norton, Geoff McCarnery, and Daniel Osgood, Can Education Unlock Scale? The Demand Impact of Educational Games on a Large-Scale Unsubsidised Index Insurance Programme in Ethiopia, (2019) Journal of Development Studies, 56(2), 361-383.
Vasilaky, Kathryn, Kenneth Leonard, As Good as the Networks They Keep?: Improving Outcomes through Weak Ties in Uganda, (2018) Economic Development and Cultural Change, 66(4): 755-792.
(Supplementary derivations, for the Target-Input model with Bayesian updating)
Vasilaky, Kathryn, Asif Islam, By Team or By Tournament? Incentives for Sharing Information in an Experimental Game, (2018) World Development, 103: 216-225.
Vasilaky, Kathryn, Female Social Networks and Farmer Training: Can Randomized Information Exchange Improve Outcomes?, (2013) American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 95(2): 376-383.
Haack, R, A., K. O. Britton, E. G. Brockerhoff, J. F. Cavey, L. J. Garrett, M. Kimberley, F. Lowenstein, A. Nuding, L. J. Olson, J. Turner, and K. N. Vasilaky. ``Effectiveness of the International Phytosanitary Standard ISPM No. 15,'' (2014) PLoS ONE, 9(5).
working papers
Aubrac,Charlotte, Christopher Magomba, Soumya Balasubramanya, Kathryn Vasilaky, "Realized and elicited cooperation under water scarcity: Evidence from a field experiment in Tanzania" Under review.
Vasilaky, Kathryn, Aric Shafran, "Intraday farm productivity bonuses and their peer effects: Evidence from a field experiment" Under review.
Hill, Ruth, Carolina Mejía-Mantilla, Kathryn Vasilaky, Vanishing Returns? Potential Returns and Constraints to Input Adoption among Smallholder Farmers in Uganda World Bank Research Paper Vol. 1, No. 8627, (2020) R&R.
Vasilaky, Kathryn, A Generalized Ridge Regression Using an Iterative Solution: the Inverse Problem in Regression Analysis with a Stopping Rule, Columbia University, Working Paper, (2019) and accompanying git repo.
Harou, Aurélie, Chia-Ying Lee, Daniel Osgood, Kathryn Vasilaky, Measuring the Impact of Timely Disaster Response in the Philippines using Weather Extremes, Working Paper, (2019).
unpublished papers
Shirley, Kenny, Kathryn Vasilaky, Helen Greatrex, and Daniel Osgood, A Hierarchal Bayesian Model of Weather Prediction with Multiple Time Series, Earth Institute, Columbia University, Working Paper (2016).reports
Vasilaky, Kathryn and Kenneth Leonard, "Improving Social Networks for Ugandan Farmers" (2016) Gender Innovation Lab Policy Brief, World Bank Report.
Buehren, Niklas, and Markus Goldstein, Kenneth Leonard, Joao Montalvao, Kathryn Vasilaky, World Bank Report Number WPS7699.
World Bank Policy brief on using local social networks in agricultural training.
Vasilaky, Kathryn, "Єдиний Економічний Простір : Наслідки для України" (2004) Shevchenko Scientific Society.