Inequality and institutional outcomes in Viet Nam: A combined principal components and clustering analysis

Thu K. Hoang, Klarizze Anne Martin Puzon, Hoai Thi Thu Dang and Rachel M. Gisselquist

No wp-2024-38, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Better understanding of inequality, including its relationship to governance and other key outcomes, is relevant both to academic researchers and to policy-makers. Nevertheless, efforts to establish causal relationships empirically remain hampered by the quality and availability of data, especially for Global South countries at the sub-national level. This paper draws on newly available data on income inequality in Viet Nam at the provincial level to show how unsupervised learning techniques might be used as tools in consideration of the relationship between inequality and governance.

Keywords: Inequality; Institutional quality; Principal component analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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