Impact Evaluation in Transport and ICT

This workshop, hosted by Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) and the WB Transport and ICT Global Practice will bring together practitioners, subject matter experts, and researchers working to find solutions to challenges in transport and ICT through IE.

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Impact Evaluation to Development Impact (i2i) is a new global platform building partnerships to expand the use of impact evaluation (IE) for evidence-based policy. Members work together to improve the effectiveness of development policies and empower policymakers to test innovations and scale-up solutions to their development problems. The i2i platform is managed by the Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) Unit. The United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID) is an i2i donor.

Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) is housed in the Research Group of the World Bank with a mandate to generate high-quality and operationally relevant impact evaluation research to transform development policy. DIME’s objectives are to increase the use of impact evaluation in the design and implementation of public policy, improve the quality of the World Bank’s operations, strengthen country institutions for evidence-based policy making, and generate knowledge in strategic development areas.

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Last Updated: Jun 21, 2015

Monday (June 22)
8:00 - 8:30AM	Registration
8:30 - 9:15AM	Opening Remarks: IE Connect for Impact: A New Partnership for the T&I GP
	Pierre Guislain, Senior Director, Transport & ICT GP, World Bank
9:15 - 9:40AM	Aligning our knowledge agenda on the evolving portfolio
	Nancy Vandycke, Lead Economist, Transport & ICT GP, World Bank
9:40 - 10:00AM	New Opportunities for MDBs to scale up IE research
	Stevan Lee, Senior Economist and Team Leader (DFID)
10:00 - 10:45AM	Impact Evaluation for Real Time Policy Making
	Arianna Legovini, Manager, Development Impact Evaluation (DIME), World Bank
10:45 - 11:00AM	Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00PM	Setting the Framework: Designing Interventions to Achieve Impact
	Esteban Diez-Roux, Principal Transport Specialist, Transport Division, Inter-American Development Bank Patricia Yanez-Pagans, Economics Specialist, Office of Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness (SPD), Inter-American Development Bank
12:00 - 1:00PM	Lunch
1:00 - 2:00PM	Impact Opportunities 1: Connecting for Jobs
	Chair: Siv Tokle, Senior Operations Officer, Jobs Cross-Cutting Solutions Area, World Bank
	· David Phillips (Hope College) · Paul Novosad (Dartmouth College) · Melanie Morton (Stanford University)

2:00 - 3:30PM	Measuring Impact I: Causal Inference & Quasi-Experimental Methods
(Language groups)	English: Arndt Reichert, Economist, DIME, World Bank Spanish: Patricia Yanez-Pagans, Economics Specialist, Office of Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness (SPD), Inter-American Development Bank French: Eric Mvukiyehe, Economist, DIME, World Bank Portuguese: Caio Piza, Economist, DIME, World Bank
	Causality/Causal Inference Difference-in-Difference Propensity Score matching Discontinuity Design
3:30 - 3:45PM	Coffee Break
3:45 - 4:00PM	Integrating Impact Evaluations into the Design of Projects
	Felipe Dunsch, IE Coordinator, Development Impact Evaluation (DIME), World Bank
	Interactive guide for designing an impact evaluation based on a practical example. Gives overview of group work sessions.
4:00 - 6:30PM	Group Work I
(Small groups)	Project teams work on their impact evaluation, facilitated by TTL & researchers
	In this session, the group will establish a results chain & determine the research questions for their project.
7:00 - 9:00PM	Dinner

Tuesday (June 23)
9:00 - 9:45AM	Impact Opportunities 2: Connecting Sustainably – Climate Change & Transportation
	Chair:Georges Bianco Darido, Lead Urban Transport Specialist, Transport and ICT GP, World Bank
	Panelists: • David Bonilla, University of Oxford • Arndt Reichert, DIME, World Bank • Rui Wang, University of California, Los Angeles
9:45 - 10:30AM	Impact Opportunities 3: Achieving Impact Through ICT & Digital Infrastructure
	Chair: Jerome Bezzina, Senior Regulatory Economist, Transport & ICT GP, World Bank
	· Laurent Gille (Télécom Paris Tech) · Emilia Tjernström (University of Wisconsin, Madison) · Gabriel Ahlfeldt (London School of Economics)
10:30 - 10:45AM	Coffee Break
10:45 - 12:00PM	Measuring Impact II: Experimental Methods
(Language groups)	English: Michael Roscitt, IE Coordinator, DIME, World Bank Spanish: Sebastian Martinez, Lead Economist, SPD, Inter-American Development Bank French: Eric Mvukiyehe, Economist, DIME, World Bank Portuguese: Astrid Zwager, IE Coordinator, DIME, World Bank
	Impact Evaluation Causality / Causal Inference Randomization
12:00 - 12:15PM	Group Picture
12:15 - 1:15PM	Lunch
1:15 - 2:45PM	Experimental Methods Practical Case Study
(Small groups)	The theoretical concepts discussed up to now in the policy and technical sessions will be reinforced through group work on a case study. The case study will focus on the various identification strategies and methods for constructing a counterfactual. Results of the exercise will discussed in groups.
2:45 - 3:30PM	Impact Opportunities 4: Linking Markets
	Chair: Kavita Sethi, Senior Transport Economist, Transport & ICT GP, World Bank
	• Jacob Hochard, University of Wyoming • Simon Alder, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill • Stéphane Straub, Toulouse School of Economics

3:30 - 3:45PM	Coffee Break
3:45 - 6:30PM	Group Work 2
	Project teams work on their impact evaluation, facilitated by TTL & researchers
	In this session, the group will determine the identification strategy, outcome indicators and datasets that will be used to answer each research question.

Wednesday (June 24)
9:00 - 9:45AM	Team Research Questions & Knowledge Gaps
	Nancy Vandycke, Lead Economist, Transport & ICT GP, World Bank
	Arianna Legovini, Manager, DIME, World Bank
9:45 - 10:30AM	Impact Opportunities 5: Road Safety & Highway Efficiency
	Chair: Sebastian Martinez, Lead Economist, SPD, Inter-American Development Bank
	• Patricia Yanez-Pagans, Economics Specialist, SPD, Inter-American Development Bank • Sebastian Vollmer, University of Göttingen • Jonathan Hall, University of Toronto
10:30 – 10:45AM	Coffee Break
10:45 – 11:30AM	Data Collection in Transport & ICT Evaluations
	Chair: Arturo Ardila Gomez, Lead Transport Economist, Transport and ICT GP, World Bank · Florence Kondylis, Senior Economist, DIME, World Bank · Nilesh Fernando (Harvard University) · Julia Bird (University of Oxford)
11:30 – 12:45PM	Measuring Impact III: Sampling and Power Calculations
	Maria Jones, Research Analyst, DIME, World Bank An interactive session introducing the concepts of sampling, randomization and power calculations
12:45 - 1:45PM	Lunch
1:45 – 2:30PM	Impact Opportunities 6: Cross-Cutting Issues
	Chair: Arianna Legovini, Manager, DIME, World Bank · Kate Vyborny (Duke University) · Gharad Bryan (London School of Economics) · Bilal Siddiqi (DIME), World Bank
2:30 – 3:30PM	Group Work 3
	Project teams work on their impact evaluation, facilitated by TTL & researchers
	In this session, the group will work on the practical implementation plan of the IE including budget, timeline and staffing.

3:30 – 3:45PM	Coffee Break
3:45 – 6:30PM	Group Work 4
	Project teams work on their impact evaluation, facilitated by TTL & researchers
	In this session, the group will work on their presentations for tomorrow.
7:00 - 9:00PM	Dinner

Thursday (June 25)
8:30 – 9:30AM	Teams Finalize Presentations
9:30 - 10:00AM	Opportunities Ahead: Impact Evaluation to Development Impact (i2i)
	M Abul Azad, IE Coordinator, DIME, World Bank
10:00 – 10:30AM	Knowledge Test (Post)
10:30 – 10:45AM	Coffee Break
10:45 - 1:45PM	Impact Evaluation Designs: Team Presentations Teams present their designs as part of a panel. Questions, submitted from the audience via social media, are answered at the end.
	Panel 1: Urban Mobility 1 and Urban Mobility 2 Panel 2: Rural Roads
	Lunch (Ongoing during Presentations) Panel 3: ICT Panel 4: Corridors
1:45 – 2:15PM	Closing Ceremony
	Nancy Vandycke, Lead Economist, Transport and ICT GP, World Bank Arianna Legovini, Manager, Development Impact Evaluation (DIME), World Bank Esteban Diez-Roux, Principal Transport Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank Stevan Lee, Senior Economist and Team Leader (DFID)

Chair: Arianna Legovini, Manager, DIME, World Bank

· Kate Vyborny (Duke University)
· Gharad Bryan (London School of Economics)

Chair: Arianna Legovini, Manager, DIME, World Bank

· Kate Vyborny (Duke University)
· Gharad Bryan (London School of Economics)

Last Updated: Jul 08, 2015

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