We examine the role of structural change in the economic development of Vietnam from 1990 to 2008. Structural change …

Prior researchers have deployed the Vietnam-era draft lottery as an instrument to estimate causal effects of military …: household and family life. In the present study we use the same IV approach to model the causal impact of Vietnam- era military …

attainment induced by draft-avoidance behavior during the Vietnam War. We use national and state-level induction risk to identify … risk on out-of-state migration also imply that the Vietnam War led to substantial geographic churning in the national labor …

-industry heterogeneity in growth rates within Vietnam to test empirically whether growth leads to lower corruption. We find that it does. We …

Research on the effects of Vietnam military service suggests that Vietnam veterans experienced significantly higher … mortality than both non-Vietnam veterans and the civilian population at large. These results, however, may be biased by non …. The present study generates unbiased estimates of the causal impact of Vietnam era draft eligibility on male mortality …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …