Global Campus Institute & Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life
Hiroshima University
Email: tranduc[[at]]hiroshima-u.ac.jp
Employment
2024 - Present: Assistant Professor, Global Campus Institute & Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University
August 2023 - April 2024: Assistant Professor (Specially Appointed), Hitotsubashi University for Advance Study, Hitotsubashi University
April 2021 - July 2023: Assistant Professor, International Economic Development Program, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University.
Oct 2020 - Mar 2021: Postdoctoral Researcher, International Economic Development Program, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University.
Oct 2019 - Sep 2020: Postdoctoral Researcher, Global Career Design Center & International Economic Development Program, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University.
Education
Ph.D., Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University, Sep 2019.
M.Sc., Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University, Sep 2016.
BA in Banking and Finance, Banking Academy of Vietnam, July 2013.
Topics of Interest
Substantive topics: Agricultural economics, Development Economics
Methods: Causal Inference, Applied Econometrics, Field Experiments, Spatial Analysis
Publications
Nhu Ngoc Nguyen, Daisaku Goto, Duc Tran, Ha Thu Vu (2024). Nudging households to save electricity with feedback: Experimental evidence from Vietnam. Energy Policy, Vol.195. (Corresponding author)
Truong Pham, Daisaku Goto and Duc Tran (2024). Child online safety education: A program evaluation combining a randomized controlled trial and list experiments in Vietnam. Computers in Human Behavior, Vol.156.
Binaya Chalise, Shinji Kaneko and Duc Tran (2022). Blessing of the moon: cultural beliefs, birth timing and child health in Nepal. Culture, Health and Sexuality, Vol.5.
Duc Tran, Daisaku Goto and Vu Ha Thu (2021). Agricultural land consolidation, labor allocation and land productivity: A case study of plot exchange policy in Vietnam. Economic Analysis and Policy, Vol. 73, 455-473.
Vu Ha Thu, Duc Tran, Daisaku Goto and Keisuke Kawata (2020). Does experience sharing affect farmers’ pro-environmental behavior? A randomized controlled trial in Vietnam. World Development, Vol. 136, 1-13.
Duc Tran and Daisaku Goto (2019). Impacts of sustainability certification on farm income: Evidence from small-scale specialty green tea farmers in Vietnam. Food Policy, Vol.83, 70-82.
Selected Working Papers
Soil information and agricultural technology adoption: Experimental Evidence in Vietnam. (with Hung Manh Nguyen, Daisaku Goto and Vu Ha Thu) Available on request.
Not gone with the wind: The long-run effect of herbicidal warfare in Vietnam. (with Gaku Ito and Yuichiro Yoshida) Available at SSRN https://ssrn.com/abstract=4512129.
Dynamic uptake of crop insurance: Evidence from field experiments in Vietnam. (with Vu Ha Thu, Munenobu Ikegami, and Kazushi Takahashi)
Subsidy for all? Spillover effects of subsidy on crop insurance adoption in Vietnam. (with Vu Ha Thu, Shoji Masahiro, Munenobu Ikegami, and Daisaku Goto)
Presentations at Conferences and Seminars
Gaku Ito, Duc Tran, Ghulan Dastgir Khan, Yuichiro Yoshida. After Silient Spring: Altruistic Legacies of Herbicidal Warfare in Vietnam. University of Toyama, Toyama. December 18, 2024
Duc Tran, Nguyen Manh Hung, Daisaku Goto. Soil Information and Agricultural Technology Adoption: Experimental Evidence from Vietnam. the PRSCO 28th Pacific Conference of the RSAI 2024, EXCO, Daegu, South Korea. August 4-7, 2024
Duc Tran, Nguyen Manh Hung, Daisaku Goto. Soil Information and Agricultural Technology Adoption: Experimental Evidence from Vietnam. JADE x J-TREE Joint Workshop, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo. August 3, 2024
Gaku Ito, Duc Tran, Yuichiro Yoshida. Unpacking the legacies of chemical warfare: Evidence from the Vietnam War. SSJDA Seminar, Center for Social Research and Data Archives, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo. March 14, 2022
Duc Tran, Vu Ha Thu and Daisaku Goto. Land Consolidation and Farm Production: A Difference-in-Differences Approach with Plot Exchange in Two Provinces of Vietnam. The 60th Annual Meeting of the Western Regional Science Association (WRSA). Virtual conference. February 22-25, 2021.
Duc Tran, Vu Ha Thu and Daisaku Goto. Land Consolidation and Farm Production: A Difference-in-Differences Approach with Plot Exchange in Two Provinces of Vietnam. The 19th International Conference of the Japanese Economic Policy Association. Virtual conference. November 14-15, 2020.
Duc Tran and Daisaku Goto. Smallholder Farmers’ Preferences for Certification Standards: A Randomized Conjoin Analysis in Vietnam. The 26th PRSCO Meeting and 59th Annual Meeting of the WRSA, Waikiki, Hawaii, the U.S, March 18-21,2020. (Abstract accepted but presentation canceled due to the outbreak of COVID-19).
Vu Ha Thu, Duc Tran, Daisaku Goto and Keisuke Kawata. Does Experience Sharing Affect Farmers’ Pro-environmental Behavior? A Randomized Controlled Trial in Vietnam. ESA North American Meeting 2019. Economic Science Association. Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, the U.S, October 10-13, 2019.
Vu Ha Thu, Duc Tran, Daisaku Goto and Keisuke Kawata. Pecuniary versus Non-pecuniary Interventions to Influence Farmers’ Behavior: Evidence from Field Experiment in Vietnam. The 15th International Conference of the Western Economic Association International (WEAI). Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, March, 21-24, 2019.
Duc Tran and Daisaku Goto. Can Certification Improve Impacts of Farmer Cooperatives? Evidence from Tea Producers in Thai Nguyen Vietnam, The 16th International Conference of Japan Economic Policy Association (JEPA), Okinawa, Japan, November 4–5, 2017.