Using the first two waves of the Vietnam Living Standards Survey, we investigate how a father's temporary absence … investment ; child labor ; Vietnam ; VLSS …

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 …-rural inequality ; Vietnam ; unconditional quantile regression ; Oaxaca decomposition …

This paper evaluates how Vietnam's Escuela Nueva (VNEN) program, an educational reform for primary schools supported by … small in the short-term, and that they are larger for boys, ethnic minorities, and students in Northern Vietnam. The VNEN …

Despite being the poorest or second poorest participant, Vietnam performed much better than all other developing … provide a rigorous investigation of Vietnam's strong performance. After making various parametric and non …-parametric corrections for potentially non-representative PISA samples, including bias due to Vietnam's large out-of-school population …