Economic and non-economic returns to Communist Party membership in Vietnam

Thomas Markussen and Thanh Ngo

No wp-2018-46, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Single-party political systems exist in a number of countries, such as China and Vietnam. In these countries, party membership is potentially an important source of economic and social status. This paper investigates these effects and the mechanisms behind them. In particular, we use household- and individual-level panel data to analyse the causes and consequences of Communist Party membership in rural areas of Vietnam. Fixed effects models are employed to control for unobserved differences between party members and others.

Keywords: Communist; Income; Credit; Subject well-being; Viet Nam (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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