| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP7918
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| DP7918 Inequality in Vietnamese Urban-Rural Living Standards, 1993-2006 |
| Alison Booth; Huong Thu Le
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| 发表日期 | 2010-07-01
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| 出版年 | 2010
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Using data from five waves of the Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey, we find evidence of significant urban-rural expenditure inequality. Urban-rural inequality increased dramatically from 1993 to 1998, and peaked in 2002 before reducing slightly in 2004, and significantly in 2006. The urban-rural gap also monotonically increases across the expenditure distribution. We use a variant of the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition method, applied to the unconditional quantile regression method of Firpo, Fortin and Lemieux (2009), to explain the components of the per capita expenditure differentials between urban and rural households at selected quantiles of the distribution. We also compare these estimates with those at mean obtained by OLS. Our results show a number of factors contributing significantly to the high urban-rural gap. These include inter-group differences in education, household demographic structure, industrial structure and their related returns. Adjusting the average characteristics of rural households to those of urban households will reduce about a half of the overall urban-rural expenditure gap. A significant part of the remaining unexplained component lies in the intercept differences; that is, the inter-group differences in other factors not captured in the model that favor urban households. |
| 主题 | Development Economics
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| 关键词 | Urban-rural inequality
Vietnam
Unconditional quantile regression
Oaxaca decomposition
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp7918
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/536755
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推荐引用方式
GB/T 7714 |
Alison Booth,Huong Thu Le. DP7918 Inequality in Vietnamese Urban-Rural Living Standards, 1993-2006. 2010.
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