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Open AccessProgram participation in a targeted land distribution program and household outcomes: evidence from Vietnam
We estimate whether a land reform program led to higher incomes for ethnic minority households. In 2002, in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, Program 132 directed the transfer of farm land to ethnic minority h...
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Chinese Economic Reforms
Why did China’s modest reforms unleash an enormous boom? Three decades of socialist planning created vast untapped potential. China captured this potential by focusing on ‘big reforms’ linked to incentives, ma...
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Growth with equity: income inequality in Vietnam, 2002–14
We use the 2002 through 2014 Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys to construct comparable measures of household income and estimates of income inequality over this high-growth period. We focus on two que...
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Compensating for unequal parental investments in schooling
This paper investigates how rural families in China use marital and post-marital transfers to compensate their sons for unequal schooling expenditures. Using a common behavioral framework, we derive two method...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Chinese Economic Reforms
Why did China’s modest reforms unleash an enormous boom? Three decades of socialist planning created vast untapped potential. China captured this potential by focusing on ‘big reforms’ linked to incentives, ma...
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Chinese economic reforms
Since the late 1970s, China’s economic performance has astonished the world. Official figures show that, after adjusting for inflation, China’s GDP grew at an annual rate of 9.7 per cent between 1978 and 2006,...
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Markets, Human Capital and Inequality: Evidence from Rural China
Beginning in the 1980s, almost all of the socialist countries replaced their planned economies with economic systems that relied heavily on market forces to determine the production and allocation of goods and...
