Policy

Policy workshops and seminars

I have co-organized and participated in several dissemination workshops and seminars with policy makers, researchers and other stake-holders in Vietnam.

• Learning from the VARHS Panel Data (Feb 2018, Helsinki; March 2018, Hanoi)

• Characteristics of the rural Vietnamese economy: Evidence from 2016 (November 2017, Hanoi) 

• Preliminary findings of the VARHS 2016 survey (May 2017, Hanoi) 

• Growth, structural transformation, and rural change in Vietnam: A rising dragon on the move (May 2017, Hanoi) 

• Policy workshop on the VARHS panel data (May 2015, Hanoi)  Media Coverage: VIET MAZ

Policy Reports

• Characteristics of the Vietnamese rural economy: Evidence from a 2020 rural household survey

• Characteristics of the Vietnamese rural economy: Evidence from a 2016 rural household survey (In English, In Vietnamese)

Blog posts / Policy briefs

• The Critical Role of Soft Skills in Labour Market Success, The Story Beneath, Aug 2024 (with Doan Hai Ma, Smriti Sharma and Finn Tarp).

• The forgotten psychological cost of corruption in developing countries, The Conversation, May 2021 (with Smriti Sharma and Finn Tarp).

• Rank and peer effects in higher education, VoxDev, March 2021 (with Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani and Smriti Sharma)

• Caste gaps in behaviour and personality traits: A study of university students, Ideas4India, Dec 2020 (with Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani and Smriti Sharma) [In Hindi]

• An agricultural extension program reduces malaria infections in Uganda. BASIS Brief 2019-01, May 2019 (with Yao Pan)

• Development programmes, security, and violence reduction: Evidence from India , WIDERAngle, Jan 2019 (with Heidi Kaila and Divya Tuteja) 

• Income generation and malaria in Uganda, WIDERAngle, Dec 2107 (with Yao Pan)

• Peer influence and human capital accumulation: Evidence from Delhi University colleges, Ideas4India, Nov 2016 (with Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani and Smriti Sharma)