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Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences
Education•Hanoi, Vietnam•
About: Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences is a education organization based out in Hanoi, Vietnam. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Vietnamese & Poverty. The organization has 228 authors who have published 222 publications receiving 1690 citations. The organization is also known as: VASS.
Topics: Vietnamese, Poverty, China, Mental health, Standard of living
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TL;DR: This article investigated the impacts of COVID-19 on gender inequality in economic outcomes such as income, expenditure, savings, and job loss in a multi-country setting, and found that women are 24 percent more likely to permanently lose their job than men because of the outbreak.
200 citations
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TL;DR: Investigating the changing nature of childhood poverty in four low-income countries over a 15-year period found that nutrition, health and well-being, cognitive and physical development, health behaviours and education, as well as the social, demographic and economic status of the household changed.
Abstract: Young Lives is an international longitudinal study investigating the changing nature of childhood poverty in four low-income countries [Ethiopia, India (Andhra Pradesh), Peru and Vietnam] over a 15-year period. In each country, the cohort is comprised of ≈ 2000 children aged between 6 and 18 months and up to 1000 children aged between 7 and 8 years, recruited in 2002 and sampled from 20 sentinel sites. The first survey data collection from primary caregivers and older children took place in 2002, the second in 2006-07 and the third in 2009-10. Data on the community contexts were collected to complement the household surveys. To elaborate and extend the quantitative data, longitudinal qualitative research with a subgroup of the children was carried out in 2007, 2008 and 2010-11. Topic areas covered included nutrition, health and well-being, cognitive and physical development, health behaviours and education, as well as the social, demographic and economic status of the household. Survey data from the study are archived in the International Section of the UK Public Data Archive.
155 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed three models of additivity for religious faiths: no additivity, simple additivity and complex additivity to evaluate how the values and norms of the aforementioned three religions coexist, interact, and influence Vietnamese society.
Abstract: Computational folkloristics, which is rooted in the movement to make folklore studies more scientific, has transformed the way researchers in humanities detect patterns of cultural transmission in large folklore collections. This interdisciplinary study contributes to the literature through its application of Bayesian statistics in analyzing Vietnamese folklore. By breaking down 307 stories in popular Vietnamese folktales and major story collections and categorizing their core messages under the values or anti-values of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, the study shows how the Bayesian method helps discover an underlying behavioural phenomenon called “cultural additivity.” The term, which is inspired by the principle of additivity in probability, adds to the voluminous works on syncretism, creolization and hybridity in its technical dimension. Here, to evaluate how the values and norms of the aforementioned three religions (“tam giao” 三教) co-exist, interact, and influence Vietnamese society, the study proposes three models of additivity for religious faiths: (a) no additivity, (b) simple additivity, and (c) complex additivity. The empirical results confirm the existence of “cultural additivity” : not only is there an isolation of Buddhism in the folktales, there is also a higher possibility of interaction or addition of Confucian and Taoist values even when these two religions hold different value systems (β{VT.VC} = 0.86). The arbitrary blend of the three religions is an example of the observed phenomenon of Vietnamese people selecting and adding ideas, beliefs, or artefacts—which may sometimes appear contradictory to principles of their existing beliefs—to their culture. The behavioural pattern is omnipresent in the sense that it can also be seen in Vietnamese arts, architecture, or adoption of new ideas and religions, among others. The “cultural additivity” concept, backed by robust statistical analysis, is an attempt to fill in the cultural core pointed out by syncretism and account for the rising complexity of modern societies.
122 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, the effect of non-farm sector involvement on poverty and expenditure growth was investigated using the Vietnamese Household Living Standards Surveys of 2002, 2004, 2006, and 2008, and the endogeneity-corrected estimates show that an additional household member involved with nonfarm activity reduces the probability of poverty by 7-12% and increases the household expenditure by 14% over a two-year period.
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TL;DR: It is shown that uninsured, married and employed individuals are less sensitive to cost than their counterparts because they value the information in reducing future health uncertainty, and the empirical results challenge the objections to periodic health screening by highlighting its utility.
Abstract: Decision-making regarding healthcare expenditure hinges heavily on an individual's health status and the certainty about the future. This study uses data on propensity of general health exam (GHE) spending to show that despite the debate on the necessity of GHE, its objective is clear—to obtain more information and certainty about one’s health so as to minimise future risks. Most studies on this topic, however, focus only on factors associated with GHE uptake and overlook the shifts in behaviours and attitudes regarding different levels of cost. To fill the gap, this study analyses a dataset of 2068 subjects collected from Hanoi (Vietnam) and its vicinities using the baseline-category logit method. We evaluate the sensitivity of Vietnamese healthcare consumers against two groups of factors (demographic and socioeconomic-cognitive) regarding payment for periodic GHE, which is not covered by insurance. Our study shows that uninsured, married and employed individuals are less sensitive to cost than their counterparts because they value the information in reducing future health uncertainty. The empirical results challenge the objections to periodic health screening by highlighting its utility. The relevance of behavioural economics is further highlighted through a look at the bounded rationality of healthcare consumers and private insurance companies in using and providing the service, respectively.
71 citations
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Le Thuc Duc | 8 | 17 | 315 |
Tung Manh Ho | 8 | 15 | 163 |
Nguyen Lan Cuong | 7 | 7 | 310 |
Nguyen Dinh Hoa | 7 | 21 | 174 |
Nguyen Thi Mai Huong | 7 | 10 | 241 |
Thi Mai Huong Nguyen | 7 | 17 | 408 |
Hoa Nguyen | 6 | 10 | 240 |
Hai Anh La | 6 | 26 | 182 |
Thu Thi Trinh | 6 | 9 | 149 |
Vu Tuan Huy | 5 | 8 | 147 |
Vu Hoang Dat | 5 | 6 | 127 |
Hong Hiep Hoang | 4 | 9 | 86 |
Trung Xuan Hoang | 4 | 17 | 112 |
Hiep Hoang Trinh | 4 | 6 | 44 |
Manh Tung Ho | 4 | 4 | 30 |