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adulthood, using a novel proxy for stress: risk of military induction in the United States during the Vietnam War. The paper … add to the evidence on the lasting consequences of stress, and indicate that induction risk during the Vietnam War may, in …
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examines the impacts -- half a century later -- of a mass education program conducted by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in …
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This paper addresses three questions: 1) what would have been the growth and income trajectory of Syria in the absence of war; 2) given the war, what explains the reduction in economic growth in terms physical capital, labor force, human capital, and productivity; and 3) what potential growth...
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This paper uses a global computable general-equilibrium framework with new detail on six Levant countries -- the Arab Republic of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, the Syrian Arab Republic, and Turkey -- to quantify the direct and indirect economic effects of the Syrian war and the advance of the...
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This paper examines how Nepal's 1996-2006 civil conflict affected women's decisions to engage in employment. Using three waves of the Nepal Demographic and Health Survey, the authors employ a difference-in-difference approach to identify the impact of war on women's employment decisions. The...
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of catch-up growth across the four Young Lives countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam). In addition, the paper …
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question by combining a nonexperimental impact evaluation of a large-scale rural roads project in Vietnam with qualitative data …
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nearly 1500 rural piped water customers in Vietnam reveal evidence of habit formation. A novel test based on the Euler …
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Vietnam's power sector has developed rapidly since the 1990s to become a top performer among developing countries. This … success has occurred mostly under a state-owned utility, Electricity Vietnam. Select market-oriented reforms to date have also … long-term sustainability without jeopardizing security of supply for the fast-growing economy. Vietnam's 2004 Electricity …
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suitable price data. In this paper, data from Vietnam are used to test this method against benchmarks provided by multilateral …
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