Journal Articles (Refereed)
21. Vu, TM., & Yamada, H. (2026). Impacts of improved rural roads on the well-being of Cambodian villagers. Review of Development Economics, 30, 78-90. https://doi.org/10.1111/rode.13264 (Article share, with fulltext)
20. Yamada, H., & Vu, TM. (2025). The number of toilets, toilet types, and school enrollment rates: Evidence from Cambodia. International Journal of Educational Development, 112 (103194). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2024.103194 (Open access).
19. Vu, TM., & Yamada, H. (2024). The persisting legacies of imperial elites among contemporary top-ranking Vietnamese politicians. Pacific Economic Review, 29(5), 535-541. http://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0106.12458. (Article share, with fulltext).
18. Vu, TM., & Yamada, H. (2024). Impacts of religion on sex selection in Vietnam. Review of Economics of the Household, 22, 1603–1621. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-024-09721-w (fulltext at SharedIt).
17. Vu, TM., & Yamada, H. (2024). The impacts of Confucianism on gender inequality in Vietnam. Journal of Economic Inequality, 22, 165–184. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-023-09584-8 (Open access).
16. Vu, TM., & Yamada, H. (2023). Impacts of enterprise zones on local households in Vietnam. Pacific Economic Review, 28(5), 593–612. doi: 10.1111/1468-0106.12432 (Article share, with full text access) (Working Paper Ver.)
15. Vu, TM. (2023). Temporary migrants and gender housework division among left-behind household members. Review of Development Economics, 27(3), 1834–1854. doi: 10.1111/rode.13009 (Article share, with full-text access) (Working Paper Ver.).
14. Vu, TM., & Yamada, H. (2023). Returns in wage and employment from test scores: evidence from Vietnamese national university entrance exams 2009 and household data 2018–2020. Applied Economics Letters, 30 (12), 1652–1655. doi: 10.1080/13504851.2022.2075538. (Working Paper ver.)
13. Vu, TM., & Yamada, H. (2023). Legacies of Vietnam's imperial examinations, 1075–1919: More investment in education and better educational outcomes. Journal of Comparative Economics, 51(1), 2–14. doi: 10.1016/j.jce.2022.09.004. (Working Paper ver.)
12. Vu, TM., & Yamada, H. (2022). Do enterprise zones promote local business development? Evidence from Vietnam. Journal of Regional Science, 62(4), 1206–1224. doi: 10.1111/jors.12593. (Working Paper ver.) (Article share, with full-text access)
11. Vu, TM. (2022). Effects of heat on mathematics test performance in Vietnam. Asian Economic Journal, 36(1), 72-94. doi: 10.1111/asej.12259. (Working Paper ver., Le Monde's coverage) (Article share, with full-text access)**
10. Vu, TM., & Yamada, H. (2022). Birthplace favoritism and quality of education. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 22(1), 193-201. doi: 10.1515/bejeap-2021-0342. (Working Paper ver.)
9. Vu, TM. & Yamada, H. (2021). Firms and regional favouritism. Economics of Transition and Institutional Change (former The Economics of Transition), 29(4), 711-734. doi: 10.1111/ecot.12308. (Article share, full-text access) (Working Paper ver.)
8. Vu, TM. & Yamada, H. (2020). Convergence of public and private enterprise wages in a transition economy: Evidence from a distributional decomposition in Vietnam, 2002-2014. Economic Systems, 44(1), 100737. doi: 10.1016/j.ecosys.2019.100737. (Working Paper ver.)
7. Vu, TM. (2019). Home appliances and gender gap of time spent on unpaid housework: Evidence using household data from Vietnam. Singapore Economic Review, 64(1), 97-114. doi: 10.1142/S0217590817430019. (Working Paper ver.)
6. Yamada, H., & Vu, TM. (2018). Health insurance coverage and firm performance: Evidence using firm level data from Vietnam. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 18(4), 20170202. doi: 10.1515/bejeap-2017-0202. (Working Paper ver.)
5. Vu, TM. & Yamada, H. (2018). Decomposing Vietnamese gender equality in terms of wage distribution. Pacific Economic Review, 23(5), 705-731. doi: 10.1111/1468-0106.12269. (Working Paper ver.)
4. Vu, TM., Yamada, H., & Otsuki, T. (2017). Rise and fall of multinational enterprises in Vietnam: survival analysis using census data during 2000-2011. Asian Economic Journal, 31(1): 83-109. doi: 10.1111/asej.12114. *** (Working Paper ver.)
3. Vu, TM. & Matsushige, H. (2016). Gender, sibling order, and differences in the quantity and quality of education: Evidence from Japanese twins. Asian Economic Journal, 30(2): 147-170. doi: 10.1111/asej.12088. (Working Paper ver.)
2. Vu, TM. (2014). One male offspring preference: evidence from Vietnam using a split-population model. Review of Economics of the Household, 12(4): 689-715. doi: 10.1007/s11150-013-9183-z. (Working Paper ver).
1. Vu, TM. (2014). Are daughters always the losers in the chore war? Evidence using household data from Vietnam. Journal of Development Studies, 50(4): 520-529. doi:10.1080/00220388.2013.875535. (Working Paper ver.)
Non-refereed papers
1 .Yamada, H., & Vu, TM. (2024). Perception of bribery, an anti-corruption campaign, and health service utilization in Vietnam. Journal of Global Management, 3, 99-104. (Working paper version MPRA Paper No. 108883).
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** Wiley: Top cited article in 2022-2023 of the Asian Economic Journal.
*** Top 20 most read paper of the Asian Economic Journal (2017-2018).