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Did a successful fight against the COVID-19 pandemic come at a cost? : impacts of the outbreak on employment outcomes in Vietnam
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2020
Vietnam is widely praised for its successful fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The country has had an extremely low … for Vietnam. We employ difference-in-differences econometric models to estimate the causal effects of the lockdown, using …
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Effectives of monetary policy under the high and low economic uncertainty states: evidence from the major Asian economies
Balcilar, Mehmet; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Ozdemir, Huseyin - 2021
This study examines the monetary policy effectiveness of five major Asian countries (China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, and South Korea) using a quantile vector autoregression (QVAR) model-based spillover estimation approach of Balcilar et al. (2020b) at different quantile paths. To do this, we...
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Turning Vietnam's COVID-19 success into economic recovery : a job-focused analysis of individual assessments on their finance and the economy
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Long Thanh Giang - 2020
implemented and analyzed a web-based rapid assessment survey immediately after the removal of lockdown measures in Vietnam, a … optimism about the resilience of the economy. Further disaggregating employment into different types of jobs such as self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228618
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The impact evaluation of Vietnam's Escuela Nueva (New School) program on students' cognitive and non-cognitive skills
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Glewwe, Paul; Lee, Jongwook; Khoa Vu - 2022
This paper evaluates how Vietnam's Escuela Nueva (VNEN) program, an educational reform for primary schools supported by … small in the short-term, and that they are larger for boys, ethnic minorities, and students in Northern Vietnam. The VNEN …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012805355
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The beneficial impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns on air pollution: evidence from Vietnam
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Trong Anh Trinh - 2020
pollution-linked deaths occur. We offer the first study that examines the pandemic's impacts on improving air quality in Vietnam …
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Growth with equity : income inequality in Vietnam, 2002-14
Benjamin, Dwayne; Brandt, Loren; McCaig, Brian - 2016
We use the 2002 through 2014 Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys to construct comparable measures of household … growth been distributed; and do changes in the structure of the economy map into changes in inequality? We explore dimensions …
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Rapid economic growth but rising poverty segregation : will Vietnam meet the SDGs for equitable development?
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Dhongde, Shatakshee; Minh Do; Cuong … - 2023
Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few … extensive province-level data from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys (VHLSSs) for every alternate year between 2002 … suggest that policy makers in Vietnam should focus on reducing spatial disparities and income inequality in order to attain …
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Trade policy uncertainty, offshoring, and the environment : evidence from US manufacturing establishments
Choi, Jaerim; Hyun, Jay; Kim, Gueyon; Park, Ziho - 2023
We study long-run environmental impacts of trade liberalization on US manufacturing by exploiting a plausibly exogenous reduction in US trade policy uncertainty: the conferral of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China. Using detailed data on establishment-level pollution emissions and...
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How did U.S. consumers use their stimulus payments
Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Weber, Michael - 2020
Using a large-scale survey of U.S. consumers, we study how the large one-time transfers to individuals from the CARES Act affected their consumption, saving and labor supply decisions. Most respondents report that they primarily saved or paid down debts with their transfers, with only about 15...
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Do reemployment programs for the unemployed work for youth? : evidence from the Great Recession in the United States
Michaelides, Marios; Mueser, Peter R.; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2020
We present experimental evidence on the effects of four U.S. reemployment programs for youth Unemployment Insurance (UI) recipients during the Great Recession. The three programs that emphasized monitoring and service referrals reduced UI receipt but had minimal effects on employment and...
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