This study examines how the historical state conditions long-run development, using Vietnam as a laboratory. Northern … Vietnam (Dai Viet) was ruled by a strong centralized state in which the village was the fundamental administrative unit …. Southern Vietnam was a peripheral tributary of the Khmer (Cambodian) Empire, which followed a patron-client model with weaker …

more likely to be alive than the poor's mothers. Using panel data set for Indonesia and Vietnam, we also find that older …

We investigate the effects of inward FDI on income distribution and absolute living standards in Vietnam using census … data from 1989-2009. We compute the number of employees of foreign establishments in each of Vietnam's provinces for each …

development of smoking behaviors. The Vietnam-era draft lottery offers a unique opportunity to investigate whether genetic …

effects on imports can also occur. These models when calibrated to 1995 data for Vietnam also suggest quantitatively much …

. We evaluate the causal effect of child labor participation on these outcomes using panel data from Vietnam and an …

of Vietnam in comparison to Thailand, as well as government subsidies for reskilling of labour fource throughout their …

Vietnam in the 1990s. Greater market integration, at least in this case, appears to be associated with less child labor. Our …

We investigate the impact of U.S. bombing on later economic development in Vietnam. The Vietnam War featured the most …

We exploit the natural experiment provided by the Vietnam lottery draft to evaluate the intergenerational effect of …