A5029539125- Water resources management and optimization
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Financial Reporting and Valuation Research
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Cruise Tourism Development and Management
- Social and Economic Development in India
- Economic Zones and Regional Development
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance
- Capital Investment and Risk Analysis
- Global Health Care Issues
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City
2011-2024
University of Gothenburg
2014
We measure people's pro-social behavior, in terms of voluntary money and labor contributions to an archetypical public good, a bridge, good game, using the same non-student sample rural Vietnam at four different points time from 2005 2011. Two observed events are actual (one one labor), is natural field experiment, artefactual experiment. Despite large contextual variations, we find strong positive statistically significant correlation between contributions, whether correcting for other...
Access to safe drinking water is limited in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam. Rainwater harvesting (RWH) at household level among primary sources and widely practiced throughout Southeast Asia. It has recently been increasingly advocated as an alternative or supplemental approach supply. However, relatively little research done on current RWH practices attitudes. We interviewed residents 619 households three provinces understand practice preferences for rainwater harvesting. found that was...
We obtain rich measures of the risk preferences a sample Vietnamese farmers, and revisit link between economic well-being. Far from being particularly averse, our farmers are on average neutral and, thus, more tolerant than typical Western subject populations. This generalises recent findings indicating that students in poorer countries richer to general population sample. Risk aversion is, furthermore, negatively correlated with income within sample, but does not correlate wealth. also...
Abstract This paper examines the attitude towards relative position or status among rural households in Vietnam. On average, respondents show rather weak preferences for position. Possible explanations are emphasis on importance of equality and that villagers very concerned with how local community perceives their actions. We also investigate what influences concern find, other things, if anyone from household is a member Peoples Committee then respondent more
Public goods provision is essential for economic development. Yet there limited evidence regarding contributions to local public in developing countries. This article analyses a field experiment where all 200 households village rural Vietnam make real good that very important them daily life—a bridge. We study the role of social influence (that people may be more willing co-operate if others do) and effects default alternative choice situation. find significant substantial (in order...
Abstract. Flooding is an endemic global challenge with annual damages totalling billions of dollars. Impacts are felt most acutely in low- and middle-income countries, where rapid demographic change driving increased exposure. These areas also tend to lack high-precision hazard mapping data which better understand or manage risk. To address this information gap a number flood models have been developed recent years. However, there substantial uncertainty over the performance these products....
This policy note provides a snapshot of water and sanitation measures implemented by governments in response to the COVID-19 pandemic 14 countries Global South: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Chile, Colombia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Panama, South Africa, Uganda Vietnam. We find that many have taken action stop utility disconnections due non-payment. With exception Ghana Vietnam, few are instituting new subsidy programs, instead choosing defer customers’ bills for...
A survey of 2075 households was conducted in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 2019 to estimate what respondents thought a “reasonable” monthly water bill would be for randomly-assigned quantity water. Two different elicitation procedures were used respondents’ reasonable bills. First, 830 asked two open-ended questions: (i) state that they considered the exogenously-assigned water, and (ii) their current use. Second, 1245 series questions from stochastic payment card (SPC). Four results are new...
Public perception of the seriousness COVID-19 pandemic compared to six other major public health problems (alcoholism and drug use, HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, lung cancer respiratory diseases caused by air pollution smoking, water-borne like diarrhea) is unclear. We designed a survey examine this issue using YouGov's internet panels in seven middle-income countries Africa, Asia, Latin America early 2022.Respondents rank ordered repeated best-worst question format. Rank-ordered logit...