Hee Kwon Seo ("Samuel")
Mailing address
The World Bank
1818 H Street NW
Washington, DC 20433
Office: MC 4-364
E-mail: hseo@worldbank.org
About me
I am a development economist in the Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) department of the World Bank Group. I completed a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics at Harvard University and PhD in economics at the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business. My current research focuses on climate change economics, the economics of education, and inclusive development.
Research fields
Development and public economics (emphases on climate change, education, and labor), industrial organization
Working papers and research in progress
"Finding the lost in class: evidence from incentives, inputs, and complementary provisions in Tanzanian high schools" [new draft coming soon]
Presented at: Empirics and Methods in Economics Conference (2019); University of Chicago (2019-2020); World Bank (2020); University of Pennsylvania (2020); Sustainable Research and Innovation Congress (2021); International Conference on Energy, Aquatech and Sustainability – Special Session for Education (2021, best presentation award); Northwestern University Development Rookiefest Conference (2021); KDI School-World Bank DIME Conference on Impact Evaluation in Sustainable and Inclusive Development (2021)
"Group size, measurement precision, and marginal abatement cost curves: evidence from food-waste and greenhouse-gas emissions" (with Seunghoon Lee) [new draft coming soon]
Presented at: AEA Annual Meeting – Environmental Policy Design Paper Session (2022); International Conference on Energy, Aquatech and Sustainability (2022); KDI School-World Bank DIME Conference on Impact Evaluation in Development amid Overlapping Crises (2022)
"Do school electrification and digital media deliver educational benefits? Experimental evidence from Tanzanian high schools" [second-year analysis pending]
Publications
"How do government transfer payments affect retail prices and welfare? Evidence from SNAP" (with Justin Leung) [Journal of Public Economics 217 (2023)]
"Valuing the global mortality consequences of climate change accounting for adaptation costs and benefits" (with Tamma Carleton, Amir Jina, Michael Delgado, Michael Greenstone, Trevor Houser, Solomon Hsiang, Andrew Hultgren, Robert Kopp, Kelley McCusker, Ishan Nath, James Rising, Ashwin Rode, Arvid Viaene, Jiacan Yuan and Alice Zhang) [The Quarterly Journal of Economics 137. 4 (2022)]