Ayerst, Stephen; Brandt, Loren; Restuccia, Diego - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
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 …