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Social and political capital in rural Viet Nam
Markussen, Thomas - 2015
' Union, Women's Union, etc.) and other voluntary organizations, trust, and the significance of family ties in economic … Communist Party membership, trust and access to informal insurance. …
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Riots and social capital in urban India
Aghajanian, Alia; Justino, Patricia; Tranchant, Jean-Pierre - 2020
This paper explores the relationship between household exposure to riots and social capital in urban India using a panel dataset collected by the authors in the state of Maharashtra. The analysis applies a random-effect model with lagged covariates to estimate the exogenous effect of riots on...
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How does joint evolution of social trust and land administration shape economic outcomes? Evidence from Viet Nam
2018
This paper examines how the interaction of social trust and institutions, such as land administration, affects … mitigated in communes with higher level of trust. These results support the view that trust complements formal institutions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943905
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Trust a few: Natural disasters and the formation of trust in Africa
Mackay, Robert; Mavisakalyan, Astghik; Tarverdi, Yashar - 2023
-term attitudes and behaviours essential to functioning in a society, such as trust. In this paper we ask how exposure to natural … disasters within the impressionable years may affect the formation of trust by matching data from over 1,000 disaster … impressionable years, we show that disaster exposure has a negative and significant association with generalized trust. Additionally …
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Early life shocks and mental health: The long-term effect of war in Vietnam
Singhal, Saurabh - 2018
This paper provides causal evidence on early-life exposure to war on mental health status in adulthood. Using an instrumental variable strategy, the evidence indicates that early-life exposure to bombing during the American war in Vietnam has long-term effects. A one percent increase in bombing...
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Subjective returns to education: Rational expectations of disadvantaged groups in India
Balasubramanian, Pooja - 2020
This study uses data collected from school students in Mumbai to investigate how they perceive subjective expected returns for different levels of education in an environment that includes labour market discrimination. We are particularly keen to observe subjective returns to education for...
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The happy farmer: Self-employment and subjective well-being in rural Vietnam
Markussen, Thomas; Fibæk, Maria; Tarp, Finn; Tuan, … - 2014
Using survey data from rural Vietnam, this paper documents a statistically significant, positive effect of self-employment in farming on subjective well-being. Wage workers are less happy than farmers across a range of different types of wage jobs. These results suggest that structural...
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Social capital, network effects and savings in rural Vietnam
Newman, Carol; Tarp, Finn; Van Den Broeck, Katleen - 2012
Information failures are a major barrier to formal financial saving in low income countries. Households in rural communities often lack the information necessary to set up formal deposit accounts or are uncertain about the returns to saving formally. In this paper, we explore the extent to which...
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Spillover effects of international standards: Work conditions in Vietnamese small and medium enterprises
Trifković, Neda - 2015
Most studies focus on trade effects and organizational outcomes of international standards, neglecting the effect of standards on employees. Using a two-year matched firm-employee panel dataset, this paper finds that the application of standards improves work conditions in small and medium...
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Private standards and labour productivity in the food sector in Viet Nam
Trifkovic, Neda - 2016
A rising number of firms from developing countries have adopted voluntary private standards in the last decade. This has become an area of active research, especially in terms of the impact of private standards on trade, organizational performance, and employee outcomes. This paper analyses how...
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