09:00 AM - 09:10 AM
Jong-Il You, Dean, KDI School of Public Policy and Management
Arianna Legovini, Director, Development Impact Evaluation, World Bank
09:10 AM - 10:40 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Moderator: Inbok Rhee, Assistant Professor, KDI School of Public Policy and Management
1. In Strongman We Trust: The Political Legacy of the New Village Movement in South Korea
(Jean Hong, Associate Professor, University of Michigan)
2. Does election quality matter? A pre-registered quasi-experiment from Kenya's 2022
General Election
(J. Andrew Harris, Assistant Professor, New York University Abu Dhabi)
3. Giving Community-Based Organizations a Stake in Local Government Performance
: A Field Experiment in Burkina Faso
(Malte Lierl, Research Fellow, German Institute for Global and Area Studies)
13:30 PM - 15:00 PM
Moderator: Taejong Kim, Professor, KDI School of Public Policy and Management
1. Identifying optimal financial budget distributions for the low-carbon energy transition between emerging and developed countries
(Yeong Jae Kim, Assistant Professor, KDI School of Public Policy and Management)
2. Group size, measurement precision, and marginal abatement cost curves: evidence from food-waste and greenhouse-gas emissions
(Hee Kwon (Samuel) Seo, Economist, Development Impact Evaluation, World Bank)
3. Early-life Exposure to Cold Shocks and Child Growth: Evidence from Tanzania.
(Youjin Hahn, Associate Professor, Yonsei University)
15:20 PM - 16:50 PM
Moderator: Jin Park, Professor, KDI School of Public Policy and Management
1. The Dynamic Effects of Cash Transfers: Evidence from Rural Liberia and Malawi
(Dahyeon Jeong, Economist, Development Impact Evaluation, World Bank)
2. The Impact of Inter-Village Competition on Collective Action: Experimental Evidence from Myanmar and Cambodia
(Taejong Kim, Professor, KDI School of Public Policy and Management)
3. Minimum wages and shocks to agricultural employment: Evidence from South Africa
(Joshua David Merfeld, Assistant Professor, KDI School of Public Policy and Management)