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Using household data from Vietnam, we provide evidence on the effects of education on freedom of spouse choice. We use … years of schooling. We also estimate bounds on the effect of education on arranged marriage when exclusion restrictions are … violated locally (the lower bound is six to seven percentage points). The impact of education is strong for women, but …
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Does the educational track (technical or professional, as opposed to general) provide individuals with networks that are useful in the labor market? And how do these networks help? In this paper, we consider the effect of the educational track on the means by which individuals find employment,...
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This paper analyses the interrelationship between the process of suburbanization and a changing political and ethnic landscape in the Vilnius urban region. The region surrounding Vilnius city is dominated by Polish identity residents while those who suburbanise into the region are mainly ethnic...
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characteristics (age, sex, education, and household type) work characteristics, social capital attributes (trust in government …
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the 1992/93 and 1997/98 Vietnam Living Standards Surveys, we investigate average school attendance and child labour in …
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structure compared to that of the formal sector. Taking advantage of the VHLSS dataset in Vietnam, in particular its three wave …, we draw conclusions highlighting the Vietnam's labour market specificity. …
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relaxes credit constraints. Using longitudinal data for Vietnam from 1993-98, we find that households participating in non …
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Using data from five waves of the Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey, we find evidence of significant urban …-rural expenditure inequality. Urban-rural inequality in Vietnam increased dramatically from 1993 to 1998, and peaked in 2002 before … inter-group differences in education, household demographic structure, industrial structure and their related returns …
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Using the first two waves of the Vietnam Living Standards Survey, we investigate how a father's temporary absence … affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labor … attendance or education-related household expenditures. …
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We study the influence of risk and time preferences on trust and trustworthiness by conducting a field experiment in Vietnamese villages and by estimating the parameters of the Cumulative Prospect Theory and of quasi-hyperbolic time preferences. We find that while probability sensitivity or risk...
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