Loan Vu
Biographic Data
| ID | 5103204 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Loan Vu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Loan |
| FAMILY NAME | Vu |
| SIGNATURE | VU L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Curtin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8344-2773 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Youth, Social Media, and Mental Health: Evidence from Australian Panel Data
Social media use has become ubiquitous among young people, yet evidence on its association with mental health remains limited and mixed. In this study, we use rich longitudinal data from Australia and measure social media use based on the frequency of active posting or sharing on social networking sites. We find that heavy social media use and addiction are associated with increased psychological distress, with the association concentrated among …
Product of our environment? Place effects on Body Mass Index
An under-explored aspect of body weight is the role that location plays in its determination. To address this evidence gap, this study uses a dynamic event study framework to examine how weight changes for people who change their location and, by extension, how much of the overall variation in weight can be explained by place-based versus individual factors. We then undertake a decomposition analysis on movers and non-movers to evaluate the role …
Agricultural Production Diversity and Child Nutritional Outcomes in Rural Myanmar
This paper empirically investigates the links between agricultural diversity and child nutritional status in rural Myanmar. The data for this analysis come from a two-round survey of households conducted in six rural townships in Myanmar between February 2016 and November 2017. Using the child anthropometric measures haz, whz, waz, stunting, and underweight, our results show that child nutritional status worsened between 2016 and 2017. Our empiri…
Exposure to conflict and child health outcomes: Evidence from a large multi-country study
Empirical estimates show that even after controlling for a large array of socio-economic and demographic characteristics and location fixed effects, conflict exposure is negatively associated with child nutrition and immunization, across all our measures of conflict. These findings are robust across a range of specifications, alternative measures of conflict and sub-samples
Conflicts and son preference: Micro-level evidence from 58 countries
Is There an Informal Employment Penalty in Food Security? Evidence from Rural Vietnam
Silencing in Yeast rDNA Chromatin
About half of approximately 150 rRNA genes are transcriptionally active in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Chromatin structures in the inactive, and not the active, copies were previously thought to silence both rRNA genes and reporter Pol II genes. Contrary to this belief, we found that silencing of reporters is much stronger in a mutant with approximately 25 rDNA copies, all of which are transcriptionally active. By integrating reporter gene mURA3 wi…
Silencing in Yeast rDNA Chromatin
About half of approximately 150 rRNA genes are transcriptionally active in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Chromatin structures in the inactive, and not the active, copies were previously thought to silence both rRNA genes and reporter Pol II genes. Contrary to this belief, we found that silencing of reporters is much stronger in a mutant with approximately 25 rDNA copies, all of which are transcriptionally active. By integrating reporter gene mURA3 wi…
Agricultural Production Diversity and Child Nutritional Outcomes in Rural Myanmar
This paper empirically investigates the links between agricultural diversity and child nutritional status in rural Myanmar. The data for this analysis come from a two-round survey of households conducted in six rural townships in Myanmar between February 2016 and November 2017. Using the child anthropometric measures haz, whz, waz, stunting, and underweight, our results show that child nutritional status worsened between 2016 and 2017. Our empiri…
Exposure to conflict and child health outcomes: Evidence from a large multi-country study
Empirical estimates show that even after controlling for a large array of socio-economic and demographic characteristics and location fixed effects, conflict exposure is negatively associated with child nutrition and immunization, across all our measures of conflict. These findings are robust across a range of specifications, alternative measures of conflict and sub-samples
Conflicts and son preference: Micro-level evidence from 58 countries
Is There an Informal Employment Penalty in Food Security? Evidence from Rural Vietnam
Product of our environment? Place effects on Body Mass Index
An under-explored aspect of body weight is the role that location plays in its determination. To address this evidence gap, this study uses a dynamic event study framework to examine how weight changes for people who change their location and, by extension, how much of the overall variation in weight can be explained by place-based versus individual factors. We then undertake a decomposition analysis on movers and non-movers to evaluate the role …
Youth, Social Media, and Mental Health: Evidence from Australian Panel Data
Social media use has become ubiquitous among young people, yet evidence on its association with mental health remains limited and mixed. In this study, we use rich longitudinal data from Australia and measure social media use based on the frequency of active posting or sharing on social networking sites. We find that heavy social media use and addiction are associated with increased psychological distress, with the association concentrated among …
Economics (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Agriculture (2 works) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Environmental health (2 works) · Food security (2 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (2 works)