This paper examines gender inequality and female empowerment in rural Viet Nam. Using an extensive panel dataset on 2 …

agriculture. Using four waves of panel data on a large sample of households surveyed between 2008 and 2014, we find that …

-income setting of Vietnam. We propose that social capital and political connections assist households in accessing resources … necessary to establish and operate an enterprise. Using three waves of panel data on a large sample of households surveyed …

This chapter uses data from the 1992/93 and 1997/98 Vietnam Living Standards Surveys (VLSS) to describe patterns of … transfers in Vietnam. Private transfers are large and widespread in both surveys,and they are much larger than public transfers … households and providing old-age support in retirement. Panel evidence suggests some hysteresis in private transfer patterns, but …

This paper considers the statistical analysis of large panel data sets where even after conditioning on common observed … dependence. It is then established that the Common Correlated Effects (CCE) estimator of panel data model with a multifactor …

for Development (IRD), to measure and analyzes the informal sector in Vietnam. Two kinds of surveys were conducted in 2007 …: a national Labour Force Survey (LFS), which, in a first for Vietnam, classified labour by institutional sector … the second focuses on the micro dynamics drawn from the panel component. Transitions between formal and informal sector …

challenging if nonswitching and switching firms have different characteristics. I use a panel dataset built from five small and …

While many studies of welfare dynamics have been conducted using panel data sets with two or three waves, much richer … significant heterogeneity in this with significant numbers of households in fact becoming worse off. A panel-based econometric …