Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

submittedVersion

Publication Date

8-2018

Abstract

Using household data for rural northern Vietnam between 1993 and 2014, we find that the ethnic minority group continued to lag behind the majority group in various development indicators despite the overall improvement in living standards. Our regression and decomposition analyses show that the structural differences between the two groups are an important cause of persistent development gap. However, the nature of structural differences changed over time and no single source of structural difference explains the persistent gap. We argue that more minority‐appropriate policies are needed to lift poor minority households out of poverty further and reduce the development gap.

Keywords

ethnic minority, inequality, Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, poverty decomposition, Vietnam

Discipline

Asian Studies | Behavioral Economics | Race and Ethnicity

Research Areas

Applied Microeconomics

Publication

World Economy

Volume

41

Issue

8

First Page

2067

Last Page

2101

ISSN

0378-5920

Identifier

10.1111/twec.12578

Publisher

Wiley

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.12578

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