Persistent legacy of the 1075-1919 Vietnamese imperial examinations in contemporary quantity and quality of education

Tien Vu and Hiroyuki Yamada

No 2020-012, Keio-IES Discussion Paper Series from Institute for Economics Studies, Keio University

Abstract: We investigated the impact of individuals who passed the Vietnamese imperial examinations (1075-1919) on the present-day quantity and quality of education in their home districts. We layered the 2009 Population and Housing Census and the 2009 National Entrance Exams to University (NEEU) test scores on the geographical distribution of imperial test takers' home districts. We constructed a novel instrumental variable representing the average distance between the examinees' home districts and the corresponding imperial examination venues. We found a persistent legacy in the average years of schooling, literacy rate, school attendance rate, NEEU test scores, and primary school dropout rate.

Keywords: Education; Human Capital; Imperial Examination; Historical Legacy; Vietnam (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I25 N35 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2020-06-03
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Working Paper: Persistent legacy of the 1075–1919 Vietnamese imperial examinations in contemporary quantity and quality of education (2020)
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