Kathryn Vasilaky
Biographic Data
| ID | 1632853 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn Vasilaky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn |
| FAMILY NAME | Vasilaky |
| SIGNATURE | VASILAKY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | California Polytechnic State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9778-4379 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Improving smallholder agriculture via video-based group extension
Providing agricultural advice at scale poses operational challenges. Technology may help if repeating content reinforces learning for recipients and thus improves adoption, but risks reducing efficacy given limited customization and human interaction. We tested videos shared with female farmers in India as a supplement to standard human-provided extension services promoting a climate-smart practice, System Rice Intensification. The average treatm…
Spillover Effects of Girls' Empowerment on Brothers' Competitiveness
We use data from a lab-in-the-field experiment in Uganda to examine the effect of empowering girls on their brothers’ competition preferences. Our identification strategy exploits random assignment of a girls’ empowerment intervention across communities and natural variation in sibling sex composition. We find that empowering girls significantly increases their brothers’ competitiveness. The results suggest that competition preferences are mallea…
As Good as the Networks They Keep? Improving Outcomes through Weak Ties in Rural Uganda
We examine an intervention randomized at the village level in which female farmers invited to a single training session were randomly paired with farmers whom they did not know and encouraged to share new agricultural information throughout the growing season for a recently adopted cash crop. We show that the intervention significantly increased the productivity of all farmers except those who were already in the highest quintile of productivity …
As Good as the Networks They Keep? Improving Outcomes through Weak Ties in Rural Uganda
We examine an intervention randomized at the village level in which female farmers invited to a single training session were randomly paired with farmers whom they did not know and encouraged to share new agricultural information throughout the growing season for a recently adopted cash crop. We show that the intervention significantly increased the productivity of all farmers except those who were already in the highest quintile of productivity …
Improving smallholder agriculture via video-based group extension
Providing agricultural advice at scale poses operational challenges. Technology may help if repeating content reinforces learning for recipients and thus improves adoption, but risks reducing efficacy given limited customization and human interaction. We tested videos shared with female farmers in India as a supplement to standard human-provided extension services promoting a climate-smart practice, System Rice Intensification. The average treatm…
As Good as the Networks They Keep? Improving Outcomes through Weak Ties in Rural Uganda
We examine an intervention randomized at the village level in which female farmers invited to a single training session were randomly paired with farmers whom they did not know and encouraged to share new agricultural information throughout the growing season for a recently adopted cash crop. We show that the intervention significantly increased the productivity of all farmers except those who were already in the highest quintile of productivity …
Spillover Effects of Girls' Empowerment on Brothers' Competitiveness
We use data from a lab-in-the-field experiment in Uganda to examine the effect of empowering girls on their brothers’ competition preferences. Our identification strategy exploits random assignment of a girls’ empowerment intervention across communities and natural variation in sibling sex composition. We find that empowering girls significantly increases their brothers’ competitiveness. The results suggest that competition preferences are mallea…
Improving smallholder agriculture via video-based group extension
Providing agricultural advice at scale poses operational challenges. Technology may help if repeating content reinforces learning for recipients and thus improves adoption, but risks reducing efficacy given limited customization and human interaction. We tested videos shared with female farmers in India as a supplement to standard human-provided extension services promoting a climate-smart practice, System Rice Intensification. The average treatm…
Economics (3 works) · Agricultural Innovations and Practices (2 works) · Agriculture (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Intervention (counseling) (2 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (2 works)