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We exploit the natural experiment provided by the Vietnam lottery draft to evaluate the intergenerational effect of …
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more likely to be alive than the poor's mothers. Using panel data set for Indonesia and Vietnam, we also find that older …
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This paper uses the 2000 Census 1-in-6 sample to look at the long-term impact of Vietnam-era military service … point to a marked increase in schooling that appears to be attributable to the Vietnam-era GI Bill. The net wage effects …-term effect of Vietnam-era military service on health …
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induction in the Vietnam-Era Selective Service Lotteries (VSSL) appear disproportionately in the population of non …
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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 …
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development quest. The sample includes seven developing countries—Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, India, Vietnam and Brazil —all … industrialization only played a significant role in Vietnam …
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novel proxy for stress: risk of military induction during the Vietnam War. We estimate that a 10 percentage point (2 … consequences of stress, and also indicate that induction risk during Vietnam may, in certain contexts, be an invalid instrument for …
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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 …
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This study uses discontinuities in U.S. strategies employed during the Vietnam War to estimate their causal impacts. It …
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We document several facts about workforce transitions from the informal to the formal sector in Vietnam, a fast growing …
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