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Draft lottery number assignment during the Vietnam era provides a natural experiment to examine the effects of military …
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We analyze child mortality in Vietnam focusing on gender aspects. Contrary to several other countries in the region …
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In the absence of a broad-based pension scheme, the elderly in developing countries may rely on monetary transfers made by their children and on their own labour supply. This paper examines whether monetary transfers from children help to reduce elderly parents' need to work. Taking the possible...
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Using household data from Vietnam, we provide evidence on the effects of education on freedom of spouse choice. We use …
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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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the 1992/93 and 1997/98 Vietnam Living Standards Surveys, we investigate average school attendance and child labour in …
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prepares people for violent warfare, are hypothesized to link service to violent crime. Using Australia's Vietnam …
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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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Using the first two waves of the Vietnam Living Standards Survey, we investigate how a father's temporary absence …
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This paper examines the nature and drivers of Vietnam's paradoxical performance in the Program for International … a centralized education system. We first document 'Vietnam advantage' in a wide-range of supply and demand …'t explain away Vietnam's positive deviance in PISA when compared to other participating developing and developed countries. We …
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