with the Pill, we speculate, may have provided women with the means to pursue higher education at a time of limited student …

colleagues employed in the same occupation. On balance, women's noncognitive skills give them a slight wage advantage. Finally …

-collar occupation, but training increases the mean offered wage in white-collar occupation by 19%. Training also substantially increases …

Using data from five waves of the Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey, we find evidence of significant urban … inter-group differences in education, household demographic structure, industrial structure and their related returns …

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 labour … attendance or education-related household expenditures. …

income and education in determining the movement in or out of a particular scheme. The results from the static models of …Vietnam is undertaking health financing reform in an attempt to achieve universal health insurance coverage by 2014 … Vietnam Living Standard Surveys during this period reveals that about one fifth of the insured in 2004 dropped out of the …

This paper investigates how start-up firms in Vietnam operate in the face of two significant market frictions: a poorly …