Well Begun, but Aiming Higher: A Review of Vietnam’s Education Trends in the past 20 Years and Emerging Challenges

Dang, Hai-Anh; Glewwe, Paul

doi:10.1080/00220388.2017.1380797

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“…Education sets Viet Nam apart from other developing countries, especially in terms of its quality. As Dang and Glewwe (2018) show, PISA scores of 15-year-old students in Viet Nam are substantially higher than scores from countries with a similar level of income per capita and compare favourably to scores of high-income countries. Another feature of education in Viet Nam that it shares with many high-income countries-but which has not received as much attentionis the reversal of the gender education attainment gap.…”

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Puzzle me this? The Vietnamese reverse gender education gap

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Sessions³

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Puzzle me this? The Vietnamese reverse gender education gap

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“…Primary and lower secondary enrolment in Vietnam are close to universal, and upper secondary enrolment has almost tripled from 27 per cent in 1992-93 to 70 percent in 2014. The average completed years of schooling have also risen substantially over time and are higher than would be predicted by income (Dang and Glewwe 2018). There is growing interest in understanding how Vietnam achieved these successes and, more importantly, whether other low-income countries can learn from Vietnam and improve their educational systems.…”

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“…', also questioned whether other developing countries could learn from Vietnam. Recent studies have focused on the potential role of systemic factors such as schooling productivity (Dang and Glewwe 2018;Singh 2019) and parental and school inputs (Dang et al 2017;Dang and Glewwe 2018).…”

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“…More importantly, we contribute to a growing number of studies analysing Vietnam's recent success in education. Previous studies have focused on contemporary factors such as household income and parental background (Dang and Glewwe 2018), schooling productivity (Singh 2019), and other parental and schooling inputs (Dang et al 2017). This is the first study to consider the potential role of the Vietnam War and the significant increase in parental schooling following the end of the war in 1975.…”

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Intergenerational mobility of education in Vietnam: Evidence from the Vietnam War

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte.Abstract: Vietnam's education system has recently attracted international attention for exceptional learning outcomes and success in improving schooling outcomes over a short period, despite being a lower-middle-income country. One potential explanation is the substantial increase in parental schooling after the Vietnam War ended in 1975, which might have led to better educational outcomes for the next generation. This study examines the causal effect of parental schooling on children's educational attainment in Vietnam. We exploit variation in parental exposure to aerial bombing at an early age to identify the effect of parental schooling. Our instrumental variable estimates indicate that the father's schooling does not affect a child's educational outcomes. Furthermore, we find that although parental bombing exposure reduced their schooling, it did not affect children's educational outcomes or parental investment in their children. Taken together, these findings suggest that Vietnam's recent success in education is not caused by the rise in the schooling of the parents of today's children after the war ended in 1975.

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“…Despite its modest position as a lowermiddle income country, the country has recorded better education performance than what may be suggested from its income level, particularly for women. Indeed, its girls' net secondary enrollment rates caught up with and even overtook those of boys in the past decade, with the former leading the latter by as much as 10 percentage points at the upper secondary level (Dang and Glewwe, 2018). Much spotlight in the media has been given to this country's exemplar performance, but 4 See https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdgs.…”

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The Long-Run and Gender-Equalizing Impacts of School Access: Evidence from the First Indochina War

Dang¹,

Hoang²,

Nguyen³

2018

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may AbstractVery few studies currently exist on the long-term impacts of schooling policies in developing countries. We examine the impacts-half a century later-of a mass education program conducted by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in the occupied areas during the First Indochina War. Difference-in-difference estimation results suggest that school-age children who were exposed to the program obtained significantly higher levels of education than their peers who were residing in French-occupied areas. The impacts are statistically significant for school-age girls and not for school-age boys. We find beneficial spillover and inter-generational impacts of education: affected girls enjoyed higher household living standards, had more educated spouses, and raised more educated children. We discuss various robustness checks and extensions that support these findings.

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Well Begun, but Aiming Higher: A Review of Vietnam’s Education Trends in the past 20 Years and Emerging Challenges

Cited by 52 publications

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Puzzle me this? The Vietnamese reverse gender education gap

Puzzle me this? The Vietnamese reverse gender education gap

Intergenerational mobility of education in Vietnam: Evidence from the Vietnam War

The Long-Run and Gender-Equalizing Impacts of School Access: Evidence from the First Indochina War

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