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The Impacts of Climate Change and Air Pollution on Children's Education Outcomes: Evidence from Vietnam

Dang, Hai-Anh; Do, Minh N.N.; Nguyen, Cuong Viet - 2024

Very few studies have examined the impacts of both climate change and air pollution on student education outcomes, particularly in a developing country setting. Analyzing a rich database consisting of household and school surveys, test scores, and temperature and air pollution data over the past...

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Household Characteristics, Ability and Education: Evidence´ from a Dynamic Expected Utility Model

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Joergen - 1999

We estimate a Dynamic Programming model of the decision between continuing schooling or entering the labor market using a panel from the National Longitudinal Survey (NLSY). The model, set in an expected utility framework (with a power utility function), fits data on both schooling attainments...

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The economic diversity of immigration across the United States

Friedberg, Rachel M.; Jaeger, David A. - 2009

While it is well known that some areas of the United States receive more immigrants than others, less is understood about the extent to which the character of immigration varies as well. There is much broader geographic variation in the skill and demographic composition of immigrants than...

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Diversity and public goods: A natural experiment with exogenous residential allocation

Algan, Yann; Hémet, Camille; Laitin, David - 2011

This paper demonstrates the effects of ethnic and religious diversity on the quality of public spaces. Its identification strategy relies on the exogeneity of public housing allocations in France, and thereby eliminates the bias from endogenous sorting. The paper uses micro evidence of social...

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Growth with Equity: Income Inequality in Vietnam, 2002–14

Benjamin, Dwayne; Brandt, Loren; McCaig, Brian - 2016

We use the 2002 through 2014 Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys to construct comparable measures of household …

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Household Entrepreneurship and Social Networks: Panel Data Evidence from Vietnam

Nguyen, Huu Chi; Nordman, Christophe Jalil - 2017

Using a unique panel of household businesses for Vietnam, this paper sheds light on the links between households' and …

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Determinants of Employment Growth at MNEs : Evidence from Egypt, India, South Africa and Vietnam

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Estrin, Saul; Meyer, Klaus - 2004

Foreign investors are expected to contribute to economic development through a variety of channels. However, many foreign investment operations are small, and almost insignificant in their impact on the local environment. An important indication of the potential contribution of foreign investors...

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Does off-farm labor relax farmers' credit constraints? Evidence from longitudinal data for Vietnam

Stampini, Marco; Davis, Benjamin - 2008

relaxes credit constraints. Using longitudinal data for Vietnam from 1993-98, we find that households participating in non …

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Inequality in Vietnamese urban-rural living standards, 1993 - 2006

Le, Huong Thu; Booth, Alison L. - 2010

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 …

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Long-term economic consequences of Vietnam-era conscription: schooling, experience and earnings

Angrist, Joshua D.; Chen, Stacey H. - 2008

these channels are likely to affect civilian earnings. New estimates of the effects of military service using Vietnam … substantial earnings losses for white Vietnam veterans in the 1970s and 1980s. The recent estimates also point to a marked … increase in post-secondary schooling that appears to be attributable to the Vietnam-era GI Bill. Seen through the lens of a …

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