Day 1 (Nov. 10)

09:00 AM - 09:10 AM

Opening Remarks

  • 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

World Bank DIME Workshop

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Session 1. Accountable and Responsive Governance

  • 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

Session 2. Climate Change, Energy, and Environment

  • 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

Session 3. Agriculture, Food Security, and Rural Development

  • 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)