Hoang-Anh Ho

Lecturer of Economics

College of Economics, Law, and Government

UEH University

Vietnam

CONTACT

anh.ho[at]ueh.edu.vn

March 2025

KEYWORDS

Culture, Institutions, Economic Growth, Development

Vietnam, East Asia, South East Asia

WORKING PAPERS

State History and Economic Prosperity: New Perspectives from Vietnam (draft coming soon)

A reversal of fortune with respect to economic development found across districts within Vietnam. Historical centralization is a key explanation.

PUBLICATIONS

Land rights in historical Vietnam: Theory and evidence. (2023)

Explorations in Economic History, 90 (October). (link) (pdf)

An authoritarian state devises land rights to maximize tax revenue. Population density reduces the prevalence of private ownership. Theory is tested.

The Origins of Cultural Divergence: Evidence from Vietnam. (with Peter Martinsson and Ola Olsson) (2022)

Journal of Economic Growth, 27 (1). (link) (pdf)

Individualistic members out-migrated from collectivistic societies, giving rise to cultural divergence. We test, using survey, census, and experimental data.

Coverage: Marginal Revolution, Econlib.

Land Tenure and Economic Development: Evidence from Vietnam. (2021)

World Development, 140 (April). (link) (pdf)

The nationwide land privatization in 1993 Vietnam did not boost rural economic development very much.

Coverage: UEH Podcast (in Vietnamese), Edlab (in Vietnamese)

IN THE NEWS

TPHCM nửa thế kỷ tiên phong chuyển đổi mô hình tăng trưởng. Kinh Tế Sài Gòn, 5/5/2025.

Cùng Doanh Nghiệp Vững Bước. Góc Nhìn HTV, 8/3/2025.

Kinh Tế Thành Phố Hồ Chí Minh 2024. UEH, 2024. (Sài Gòn Giải Phóng, Thông Tấn Xã Việt Nam, Pháp Luật TP. HCM, Người Lao Động, HTV)

Nobel Kinh tế 2024: Bài học về thể chế. Tia Sáng, 2024.

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