Quasi-experimental evidence on the political impacts of education in Vietnam

Dang, Thang

doi:10.1080/09645292.2018.1554101

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“…Equally importantly, the F-statistics of the excluded instrument in the first-stage is approximately 76.06, suggesting that the reform is satisfactorily associated with schooling years the endogenous variable in this study (Staiger and Stock 1997). The significant positive link between the reform and educational outcome in this study is completely consistent with the findings from previous studies for Vietnam implemented by Dang (2017aDang ( , 2017b) that also use the same reform as an instrument for exogenous variations on years of schooling.…”

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confidence: 87%

“…Furthermore, reduced-form estimates illustrate that workers exposed to the reform are more likely to achieve non-wage benefits than those who were out of the reform, in particular for monetary payments for public holidays by 11.4 percentage points, monetary employee benefits by 8.8 percentage points, annual paid leave by 13.8 percentage points and firm-provided social insurance by 13 percentage points. Interestingly, it is obvious that the impact of schooling is larger for fringe 2 The 1991 compulsory schooling reform in Vietnam was used as an instrument for exogeneous changes in schooling from some recent studies related to the causal effects of schooling in health care utilization or political outcomes for examples Dang (2017aDang ( , 2017b.…”

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Education As Protection? The Effect of Schooling on Non-Wage Compensation in a Developing Country

Dang

2017

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This is the first paper identifying the causal effect of schooling on non-wage compensation using data from Vietnam. The paper takes an advantage of the establishment of the compulsory primary schooling reform that was introduced in Vietnam in 1991 to instrument for exogenous variations in years of schooling to surmount the endogeneity problem as a primary threat to idenfication facing the causal effect estimation. The paper finds that education is positively associated with non-wage benefits. In particular, the baseline 2SLS estimates indicates that one additional year of schooling is causally linked to a 6 percentage point increase in the likelihood of receiving monetary payments for public holidays, a 4.6 percentage point increase in the likelihood of receiving monetary employee benefits, a 7.3 percentage point increase in the likelihood of having annual paid leave and a 6.8 percentage point increase in the likelihood of having firm-provided social insurance. The baseline estimates are strongly robust to the estimates from some robustness checks. The paper also inspects that the causal associations between schooling and formal employment, skilled occupation and employee-friendly firm are three potential mechanisms through which schooling causally affects non-wage compensation.

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Education As Protection? The Effect of Schooling on Non-Wage Compensation in a Developing Country

Dang

2017

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“…This finding even shows the larger impacts compared to other studies for Vietnam. For example, Dang (2017) This study takes an advantage of a large and nationally representative sample from VHLSS with 27,271 observations to examine the impacts of the 1991 compulsory schooling reform on educational outcome as shown in Table 2.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Dang (2017) uses LUPE as an instrument for exogenous changes in education to estimate the causal effects of education on political outcomes in Vietnam.…”

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Does the More Educated Utilize More Health Care Services? Evidence from Vietnam Using a Regression Discontinuity Design

Dang

2017

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In 1991 Vietnam implemented a compulsory schooling reform that provides this paper a natural experiment to estimate the causal effect of education on health care utilization measured by the probability of doctor visit, the frequency of doctor visit and per visit out-of-pocket expenditure with a regression discontinuity design. The paper finds that schooling induces considerable impacts on health care utilization although the signs of the impacts changes with specific types of health care service examined. In particular, increased education aggrandizes inpatient utilization whereas it reduces outpatient health care utilization for both public and private health sectors. The estimates are strongly robust to various windows of the sample choice. The paper also discovers that the links between education and health insurance or income play very essential roles as potential mechanisms to explain the causal impacts of education on health care utilization in Vietnam.

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“…Moreover, over the last decades Vietnam made educational reforms providing more opportunities for its citizens to access to schooling and thus to improve educational outcomes which in turn has advanced economic outcomes for the next generations compared to their parents (Cornelissen and Dang, ; Dang, , ). Therefore, many Vietnamese labourers have upwardly moved in the ladder of income compared to their parents’ economic status, and then the relative degree inequality of opportunity in Vietnam is not low compared to other developing countries which have the similar context of development like Vietnam.…”

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Intergenerational Earnings and Income Mobility in Vietnam

Dang

2019

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This paper empirically examines the intergenerational mobility of earnings and income in Vietnam using the two‐sample two‐stage least squares estimation. The baseline intergenerational elasticity estimates show that Vietnam occupies the intermediate degrees of intergenerational mobility of earnings and income for both sons and daughters. In particular, a rise of 10 per cent in fathers’ earnings is on average associated with an increase of 3.61 per cent and 3.94 per cent for sons’ earnings and income, respectively. The corresponding figures for daughters’ earnings and income are 2.84 per cent and 3.33 per cent, respectively.

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Quasi-experimental evidence on the political impacts of education in Vietnam

Cited by 11 publications

References 37 publications

Education As Protection? The Effect of Schooling on Non-Wage Compensation in a Developing Country

Education As Protection? The Effect of Schooling on Non-Wage Compensation in a Developing Country

Does the More Educated Utilize More Health Care Services? Evidence from Vietnam Using a Regression Discontinuity Design

Intergenerational Earnings and Income Mobility in Vietnam

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