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Journal Article
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Land and Property Rights
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This paper uses household panel data from rural Vietnam to explore the effects of having a relative in a position of political or bureaucratic power on farmers’ agricultural investment decisions. Our main result is that households significantly increase their investment in land improvement as a...
Journal Article
– Evidence on Land Use Rights in Vietnam
Studies of land property rights usually focus on tenure security and transfer rights. Rights to determine how to use the land are regularly ignored. However, user rights are often limited. Relying on a unique Vietnamese panel data set at both household and plot levels, we show that crop choice...
Journal Article
– What Is the Loss in Precision?
Part of Journal Special Issue
Spatial Inequality and Development in Asia
Journal Article
– A Methodological Innovation in a Vietnamese Perspective
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Spatial Inequality and Development in Asia
Many developing and transition countries have considerable regional variation in average household income, poverty, and in health and educational status. National human development indicators can therefore mislead policy-makers when large regional disparities exist. This project will investigate the...
Book Chapter
– What Is the Loss in Precision?
From the book:
Spatial Disparities in Human Development
Book Chapter
– A Methodological Innovation in Vietnamese Perspective
From the book:
Spatial Disparities in Human Development
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– What is the Loss in Precision?
Spatially disaggregated maps of the incidence of poverty can be constructed by combining household survey data and census data. In some countries (notably China and India), national statistics agencies are reluctant, for reasons of confidentiality, to release household-level census data, but they...
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– A Methodological Innovation in Vietnamese Perspective
In this paper we calibrate two static computable general equilibrium (CGE) models with respectively 16 and 5,999 representative households. Aggregated and disaggregated household categories are consistently embedded in a 2000 social accounting matrix for Vietnam, mapping on a one-to-one basis to...
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