Phuong Nguyen‐Hoang
Biographic Data
| ID | 5843910 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Phuong Nguyen‐Hoang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Phuong |
| FAMILY NAME | Nguyen‐Hoang |
| SIGNATURE | HOANG P N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8960-7199 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Roads of redemption
This study compares the efficiency of convict labour, state-employed paid labour, and private contractors in Florida's early twentieth-century road construction. Using newly digitised monthly project status reports published between 1923 and 1936, we analyze completion times for 572 projects to evaluate labour productivity across contractor types. The results show that state-employed crews completed projects substantially faster than private cont…
Promoting adolescent mental health in Tanzania and Vietnam through a co-created universal school-based initiative
This article assesses a 10-month co-created universal school-based mental health (SBMH) promotion initiative for adolescents (10–19). The study combined quantitative and qualitative components. Pre- and post-intervention surveys were conducted in four schools in Tanzania ( n = 400 baseline, 488 endline, with 100 intervention participants at both) and eight schools in Vietnam ( n = 1,036 baseline, 893 endline and 436 in panel). In each country, ~9…
Exploring the Effect of Anti-immigration Rhetoric on Emergency Department Use by Undocumented Adults
Aspirations for Careers in State-Owned Enterprises
State-owned enterprises (SOEs) play an important role in Vietnam’s economy. It is of interest to policymakers to know to what extent undergraduate college students, who will soon join the labor force, aspire to work for SOEs. Our study is the first to examine the relationships between career aspirations and social support expectations as well as employment self-efficacy, and to conduct regression analyses of the moderation effects of gender, pare…
Using predicted marginal effects to assess the impact of rurality and free and reduced lunch eligibility on a school-based nutrition intervention
The impact of home rule on municipal boundary and fiscal expansion
Changing boundaries is a major method for municipalities to accommodate growth, expand economic and tax base, and optimize resource allocation. This study leverages variation in the adoption of home rule charters in Texas to provide the first empirical examination of whether home rule adoption causes municipal boundary expansion. We employ fuzzy regression‐discontinuity and event‐study estimation methods on actual boundary data for causal inferen…
Is Tax Increment Financing a Fiscal Bane or Boon
Among urban planners, tax increment financing (TIF) is a popular economic development financing tool. Critics, however, claim that TIF is a fiscal bane, reducing property value for affected jurisdictions, especially school districts. TIF regulations in Iowa—on annual base values, returned excess increments, and protected debt service levy—provide the opportunity to test this argument. Using eighteen years of TIF district-level data, this study fi…
Raising State Gas Tax Rates for Transportation Revenues
State funds for surface transportation are not only key for roadway investments but generally instrumental for transportation planning at all levels. State fuel taxes still represent a major revenue source of transportation funds. This paper makes two contributions. First, we seek to identify a revenue-optimizing gas tax rate. We find that there is considerable room for the majority of states to increase tax rates before reaching the fiscally opt…
Medicaid Health Home Reducing Costs and Reliance on Emergency Department
BACKGROUND: The Affordable Care Act allowed an optional Medicaid State Plan benefit for states to establish Health Homes coordinating care for people who have chronic conditions. Differences in medical home program incentives and implementation styles are important to understand in evaluating effects on key outcomes such as cost and acute care. In Iowa, a Medicaid Health Home (MHH) program was developed targeting Medicaid members with multiple ch…
Volatile earmarked revenues and state highway expenditures in the United States
Hedonic Vices
A key tool for studying the demand for neighborhood amenities and estimating the benefits from amenity improvements is a regression of house value on amenity levels, controlling for housing characteristics. Several scholars have developed methods to address the methodological challenges, such as endogeneity, faced by these “hedonic” regressions. Unfortunately, however, some recent studies neglect basic principles of hedonic estimation in Rosen [(…
Local Fiscal Responses to Procyclical Changes in State Aid
This article examines the asymmetry in local government responses to economic-cycle-based changes of state aid in a framework that distinguishes current outlay from noncurrent expenses and discretionary savings. Employing a panel dataset of Massachusetts municipalities for two economic cycles, we obtain three findings. First, we do not find evidence of property-tax relief during economic booms. Second, discretionary savings may be used to cover n…
Fiscal effects of budget referendums
The capitalization of school quality into house values
Leaving or Staying
Internal migration has several policy implications for economic growth and development for developing countries in general and for the fast growing low-income country of Vietnam in particular. Little research has been done, however, on inter-provincial migration in Vietnam. This study makes two major contributions to the migration and development literature in terms of the datasets and policy-relevant estimation approach. It is the first paper to…
Is Tax Increment Financing a Fiscal Bane or Boon
Among urban planners, tax increment financing (TIF) is a popular economic development financing tool. Critics, however, claim that TIF is a fiscal bane, reducing property value for affected jurisdictions, especially school districts. TIF regulations in Iowa—on annual base values, returned excess increments, and protected debt service levy—provide the opportunity to test this argument. Using eighteen years of TIF district-level data, this study fi…
Fiscal effects of budget referendums
Raising State Gas Tax Rates for Transportation Revenues
State funds for surface transportation are not only key for roadway investments but generally instrumental for transportation planning at all levels. State fuel taxes still represent a major revenue source of transportation funds. This paper makes two contributions. First, we seek to identify a revenue-optimizing gas tax rate. We find that there is considerable room for the majority of states to increase tax rates before reaching the fiscally opt…
Hedonic Vices
A key tool for studying the demand for neighborhood amenities and estimating the benefits from amenity improvements is a regression of house value on amenity levels, controlling for housing characteristics. Several scholars have developed methods to address the methodological challenges, such as endogeneity, faced by these “hedonic” regressions. Unfortunately, however, some recent studies neglect basic principles of hedonic estimation in Rosen [(…
Leaving or Staying
Internal migration has several policy implications for economic growth and development for developing countries in general and for the fast growing low-income country of Vietnam in particular. Little research has been done, however, on inter-provincial migration in Vietnam. This study makes two major contributions to the migration and development literature in terms of the datasets and policy-relevant estimation approach. It is the first paper to…
Leaving or Staying
Internal migration has several policy implications for economic growth and development for developing countries in general and for the fast growing low-income country of Vietnam in particular. Little research has been done, however, on inter-provincial migration in Vietnam. This study makes two major contributions to the migration and development literature in terms of the datasets and policy-relevant estimation approach. It is the first paper to…
The capitalization of school quality into house values
Fiscal effects of budget referendums
Local Fiscal Responses to Procyclical Changes in State Aid
This article examines the asymmetry in local government responses to economic-cycle-based changes of state aid in a framework that distinguishes current outlay from noncurrent expenses and discretionary savings. Employing a panel dataset of Massachusetts municipalities for two economic cycles, we obtain three findings. First, we do not find evidence of property-tax relief during economic booms. Second, discretionary savings may be used to cover n…
Volatile earmarked revenues and state highway expenditures in the United States
Hedonic Vices
A key tool for studying the demand for neighborhood amenities and estimating the benefits from amenity improvements is a regression of house value on amenity levels, controlling for housing characteristics. Several scholars have developed methods to address the methodological challenges, such as endogeneity, faced by these “hedonic” regressions. Unfortunately, however, some recent studies neglect basic principles of hedonic estimation in Rosen [(…
Raising State Gas Tax Rates for Transportation Revenues
State funds for surface transportation are not only key for roadway investments but generally instrumental for transportation planning at all levels. State fuel taxes still represent a major revenue source of transportation funds. This paper makes two contributions. First, we seek to identify a revenue-optimizing gas tax rate. We find that there is considerable room for the majority of states to increase tax rates before reaching the fiscally opt…
Medicaid Health Home Reducing Costs and Reliance on Emergency Department
BACKGROUND: The Affordable Care Act allowed an optional Medicaid State Plan benefit for states to establish Health Homes coordinating care for people who have chronic conditions. Differences in medical home program incentives and implementation styles are important to understand in evaluating effects on key outcomes such as cost and acute care. In Iowa, a Medicaid Health Home (MHH) program was developed targeting Medicaid members with multiple ch…
Is Tax Increment Financing a Fiscal Bane or Boon
Among urban planners, tax increment financing (TIF) is a popular economic development financing tool. Critics, however, claim that TIF is a fiscal bane, reducing property value for affected jurisdictions, especially school districts. TIF regulations in Iowa—on annual base values, returned excess increments, and protected debt service levy—provide the opportunity to test this argument. Using eighteen years of TIF district-level data, this study fi…
Aspirations for Careers in State-Owned Enterprises
State-owned enterprises (SOEs) play an important role in Vietnam’s economy. It is of interest to policymakers to know to what extent undergraduate college students, who will soon join the labor force, aspire to work for SOEs. Our study is the first to examine the relationships between career aspirations and social support expectations as well as employment self-efficacy, and to conduct regression analyses of the moderation effects of gender, pare…
Using predicted marginal effects to assess the impact of rurality and free and reduced lunch eligibility on a school-based nutrition intervention
The impact of home rule on municipal boundary and fiscal expansion
Changing boundaries is a major method for municipalities to accommodate growth, expand economic and tax base, and optimize resource allocation. This study leverages variation in the adoption of home rule charters in Texas to provide the first empirical examination of whether home rule adoption causes municipal boundary expansion. We employ fuzzy regression‐discontinuity and event‐study estimation methods on actual boundary data for causal inferen…
Exploring the Effect of Anti-immigration Rhetoric on Emergency Department Use by Undocumented Adults
Promoting adolescent mental health in Tanzania and Vietnam through a co-created universal school-based initiative
This article assesses a 10-month co-created universal school-based mental health (SBMH) promotion initiative for adolescents (10–19). The study combined quantitative and qualitative components. Pre- and post-intervention surveys were conducted in four schools in Tanzania ( n = 400 baseline, 488 endline, with 100 intervention participants at both) and eight schools in Vietnam ( n = 1,036 baseline, 893 endline and 436 in panel). In each country, ~9…
Roads of redemption
This study compares the efficiency of convict labour, state-employed paid labour, and private contractors in Florida's early twentieth-century road construction. Using newly digitised monthly project status reports published between 1923 and 1936, we analyze completion times for 572 projects to evaluate labour productivity across contractor types. The results show that state-employed crews completed projects substantially faster than private cont…
Economics (9 works) · Business (7 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (6 works) · Public economics (6 works) · Econometrics (5 works) · Finance (4 works) · Housing Market and Economics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Statistics (4 works)