We examine important changes in agriculture in Viet Nam in the context of ongoing structural changes in the economy. We … misallocation in agriculture during the period between 2006 and 2016. Despite rapid growth in agricultural productivity and a …

improvements. We calibrate the model using detailed farm-level panel data from Vietnam, exploiting regional differences in … agricultural institutions and outcomes. We focus on south Vietnam and quantify the effect of higher measured distortions in the … North on farm choices and agricultural productivity. We find that the higher distortions in north Vietnam reduce …