Ethnic riots broke out in Malaysia in 1969, prompting a national effort at affirmative action favoring the poorer … (majority) of “Bumiputera” (mainly Malays). Since then, Malaysia's official poverty measures indicate one of the fastest long …

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 …

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

-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 …