Using household data from Vietnam, we provide evidence on the effects of education on freedom of spouse choice. We use … significantly weaker for men. -- arranged marriage ; education ; schooling ; freedom of choice ; development ; Vietnam ; Red River …

Using household data from Vietnam, we provide evidence on the effects of education on freedom of spouse choice. We use …

What motivates individuals to become politicians? This is an important question in decentralized democracies, where … local politicians play a key role in public goods provision. However, and in emerging economies, bureaucratic hurdles and … concern for reputation, our model predicts that politicians' effort is increasing in their reputation concern. With …

This paper analyzes the role of women's work in reducing poverty in Vietnam during the period of 2004-08. We use t … research has used expenditure per equivalence of scale before. The determinants of poverty rates in Vietnam are also considered …. The result shows that women's work itself is not enough to reduce poverty in Vietnam. The problem of being poor mainly …

Vietnam has one of the fastest economic growth rates in the world in recent years. However, ethnic groups in this … country may not equally share the benefit of this wealth increase. Using data from household surveys in Vietnam, this paper … offers an analysis of the welfare outcomes between ethnic groups in poverty, education, labor market participation, labor …

Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the … household and thus are likely to lead to yield a biased assessment of individual poverty, and poverty by age or gender. In this … poverty status of households, while the impact of these assumptions on inequality between individual cannot be determined a …

-income setting of Vietnam. We propose that social capital and political connections assist households in accessing resources …