Kate Vyborny is an Associate Director of the DevLab at Duke and a Research Associate in the Department of Economics at Duke University. She completed her Ph.D. in the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford, where she was affiliated with the Centre for the Study of African Economies.
Kate’s research interests include Labour Markets; Urban Development and Public Transportation; and micro evidence on the effectiveness of polices to improve institutional performance. There is a focus on gender across most of her work.
Established in 1998 in Bonn, Germany, IZA is an independent, non-profit research institution supported by the Deutsche Post Foundation with a focus on the analysis of global labour markets. It operates an international network of about 1,500 economists and researchers spanning across more than 50 countries.
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