Trung Viet Vu
Biographic Data
| ID | 156703 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Trung Viet Vu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Trung Viet |
| FAMILY NAME | Vu |
| SIGNATURE | VU T V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Otago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9867-8068 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Revisiting the Ancient Origins of Gender Inequality
This study re‐examines the long‐term effect of traditional plough use on contemporary gender roles, as originally advanced by Alesina, Giuliano and Nunn [ Quarterly Journal of Economics (2013) Vol. 128, pp. 469–530]. The findings demonstrate that the reduced‐form relationship between historical plough adoption and female empowerment is robust to implementing a falsification test, using alternative proxies for gender roles, and accounting for pote…
Ancestral irrigation and collective climate action
This study examines the long-term legacy of ancestral irrigation for contemporary climate change policies. Using geographic suitability for irrigated agriculture as a plausibly exogenous source of variation in historical irrigation adoption, we find that societies whose ancestors jointly practiced irrigated agriculture during the pre-industrial era tend to adopt less effective climate change policies today. Additional evidence suggests that pro-c…
How Deep Are the Roots of Female Empowerment? Population Diversity and Gender Inequality
I study the impact of population diversity, determined predominantly over the prehistorical out‐of‐Africa migration process of anatomically modern humans, on present‐day gender inequality. Leveraging variations across countries and individuals residing in the same country but descending from different prehistorically indigenous ethnic groups, I find that deep‐rooted population diversity negatively affects women's economic and political empowermen…
The Growth Effect of State Capacity Revisited
I provide new empirical estimates of the effect of state capacity on economic development across countries over the period 1960–2022. Specifically, I construct a comprehensive state capacity index based on six different dimensions of effective state institutions available in the Varieties of Democracy (V‐Dem) dataset. Then, I estimate heterogeneous parameter models under a common factor framework. My empirical strategy explicitly allows the growt…
Exploring the Relationship Between Sleep Quality, Obesity, and Biochemical Markers in Elderly Outpatients
OBJECTIVES: This study aims to investigate the relationship between sleep quality (measured by The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index-PSQI), body mass index (BMI), and obesity status, and to explore whether metabolic factors (e.g., fasting glucose, triglycerides, and high-density Lipoprotein Cholesterol) influence this association in elderly outpatients. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 404 elderly people at Thai Binh Medical Univers…
State history and political instability
This article hypothesizes and empirically establishes that statehood experience, accumulated over a period of up to six millennia, lies at the deep roots of the spatial distribution of political instability across non‐European countries. Using the state history index measured between 3,500 BCE and 2000 CE, I consistently obtain precise estimates that long‐standing states outside Europe, relative to their newly established counterparts, are charac…
Does institutional quality foster economic complexity? The fundamental drivers of productive capabilities
Unbundling the effect of political instability on income redistribution
Linking LGBT inclusion and national innovative capacity
Are genetic traits associated with riots? The political legacy of prehistorically determined genetic diversity
This paper establishes that the worldwide distribution of political instability has its deep historical roots in genetic diversity, predetermined over the prehistoric course of the exodus of Homo sapiens from East Africa tens of thousands of years ago. It proposes that the relationship between prehistorically determined genetic diversity and contemporary political instability follows a U‐shaped pattern. More specifically, genetic diversity at fir…
Economic complexity and health outcomes
Economic complexity and health outcomes
Are genetic traits associated with riots? The political legacy of prehistorically determined genetic diversity
This paper establishes that the worldwide distribution of political instability has its deep historical roots in genetic diversity, predetermined over the prehistoric course of the exodus of Homo sapiens from East Africa tens of thousands of years ago. It proposes that the relationship between prehistorically determined genetic diversity and contemporary political instability follows a U‐shaped pattern. More specifically, genetic diversity at fir…
Does institutional quality foster economic complexity? The fundamental drivers of productive capabilities
Unbundling the effect of political instability on income redistribution
Linking LGBT inclusion and national innovative capacity
State history and political instability
This article hypothesizes and empirically establishes that statehood experience, accumulated over a period of up to six millennia, lies at the deep roots of the spatial distribution of political instability across non‐European countries. Using the state history index measured between 3,500 BCE and 2000 CE, I consistently obtain precise estimates that long‐standing states outside Europe, relative to their newly established counterparts, are charac…
How Deep Are the Roots of Female Empowerment? Population Diversity and Gender Inequality
I study the impact of population diversity, determined predominantly over the prehistorical out‐of‐Africa migration process of anatomically modern humans, on present‐day gender inequality. Leveraging variations across countries and individuals residing in the same country but descending from different prehistorically indigenous ethnic groups, I find that deep‐rooted population diversity negatively affects women's economic and political empowermen…
The Growth Effect of State Capacity Revisited
I provide new empirical estimates of the effect of state capacity on economic development across countries over the period 1960–2022. Specifically, I construct a comprehensive state capacity index based on six different dimensions of effective state institutions available in the Varieties of Democracy (V‐Dem) dataset. Then, I estimate heterogeneous parameter models under a common factor framework. My empirical strategy explicitly allows the growt…
Exploring the Relationship Between Sleep Quality, Obesity, and Biochemical Markers in Elderly Outpatients
OBJECTIVES: This study aims to investigate the relationship between sleep quality (measured by The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index-PSQI), body mass index (BMI), and obesity status, and to explore whether metabolic factors (e.g., fasting glucose, triglycerides, and high-density Lipoprotein Cholesterol) influence this association in elderly outpatients. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 404 elderly people at Thai Binh Medical Univers…
Revisiting the Ancient Origins of Gender Inequality
This study re‐examines the long‐term effect of traditional plough use on contemporary gender roles, as originally advanced by Alesina, Giuliano and Nunn [ Quarterly Journal of Economics (2013) Vol. 128, pp. 469–530]. The findings demonstrate that the reduced‐form relationship between historical plough adoption and female empowerment is robust to implementing a falsification test, using alternative proxies for gender roles, and accounting for pote…
Ancestral irrigation and collective climate action
This study examines the long-term legacy of ancestral irrigation for contemporary climate change policies. Using geographic suitability for irrigated agriculture as a plausibly exogenous source of variation in historical irrigation adoption, we find that societies whose ancestors jointly practiced irrigated agriculture during the pre-industrial era tend to adopt less effective climate change policies today. Additional evidence suggests that pro-c…
Economics (8 works) · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Economic and Technological Innovation (3 works) · Inequality (3 works) · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development (3 works) · Political instability (3 works)