CURRICULUM VITAE (Nguyen Viet Cuong) PERSONAL DATA Name: Sex: Nationality: Date of Birth: Employment: Correspondence address: Home Address: Office Address: Nguyen Viet Cuong Male Vietnamese June 7, 1976 Researcher, Institute of Public Policy and Management, National Economics University, Vietnam. So 3 Ngo 68 Nguy Nhu Kon Tum, Thanh Xuan, Hanoi, Vietnam. Room 4.4, Building 10, National Economics University, Giai Phong street, Hanoi, Vietnam. Tel: (+ 84 4) 3554 3306; (+ 84) 904 159 258 (cell phone) Fax: (+84 4) 3573 9670 Email: c_nguyenviet@yahoo.com nguyen.cuong@ippm.edu.vn EDUCATIONS 2005-2009: Ph.D. in Development Economics Group, Faculty of Agricultural Economics and Management, Wageningen University, the Netherlands. The dissertation topic Essays on Impact Evaluation: New Empirical Evidence from Vietnam. 2000 2002: M.A. in Development Economics Group, Faculty of Agricultural Economics and Management, Wageningen University, the Netherlands (with distinction and prize for the best M.A. thesis of the Master Programme 2000-2002 in Wageningen University). 1995 1999: B.A. in English, Foreign Language School, National University, Hanoi, Vietnam. 1994 1998: B.A. in Trade Economics, National Economics University, Hanoi, Vietnam. LANGUAGE Vietnamese: Mother tongue English: Fluent 1
TEACHING Lecturer in National Economics University, and short training courses in other organizations. Main courses are: - Econometrics (Master Level). - Quantitative Impact Evaluation of Programs/Projects (Master Level). - Trade Economics, and Business Administration (Bachelor Level). - Poverty and inequality analysis (short course). - Poverty mapping, small area estimation (short course). - Data Analysis using Stata (short course). WORKING EXPERIENCES Researcher and consultant for Ministries, Governmental Organization in Vietnam; World Bank, UNDP, IFPRI offices in Vietnam; Embassy of Finland in Vietnam; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in Canada; NGOs, etc. Selected researches and consultations (the full list of researches can be provided on request): March 2012-now: Researcher in project Impact Evaluation of the Program 135-II in Vietnam for UNDP in Vietnam (Part-time work). April 2012-now: Researcher in study Impact Evaluation of Fuel and Electricity Price on Firms in Vietnam for Center of Analysis and Forecast, and National Assembly in Vietnam (Part-time work). March 2012-now: Researcher in study Economic Impacts of Minimum Wages in Vietnam for the World Bank in Vietnam (Part-time work). April 2011-April 2012: Researcher in project Poverty maps in Vietnam for the World Bank in Vietnam (Part-time work). March 2010 September 2010: Researcher in Writing the 2010 Report on the Millennium Development Goals for Ministry of Planning and Investment of Vietnam and UNDP (Part-time work). August 2009 - March 2010: Researcher in Evaluation of economic impacts of international migration and remittances for Vietnam, funded by the World Bank in Washington D.C. Vietnam (Part-time work). October 2008 - October 2009: Consultant in project Impact evaluation of minimum wage policies on employment, inflation, and enterprise performance for World Bank in Vietnam (Part-time work). April - September 2009: Researcher in Evaluation of impacts of economic slowdown on employment in Vietnam, funded by UNDP in Vietnam (Part-time work). November - December 2008: Researcher in Analysis of social capitals in Vietnam using Vietnam Household Living Standard Surveys. The research is funded by the World Bank in Vietnam (Part-time work). 2
August - October 2007: Consultant in Evaluation and construction of minimum wages in Vietnam. The research is organized by MOLISA with fund from the World Bank in Vietnam (Part-time work). January 2005 - January 2006: Lead researcher in Methods for identifying poor households and communes in Vietnam through proxy-indicators. The researcher is conducted by MOLISA with fund from the World Bank (Part-time work). July - October 2003: Researcher in Assessing the impact of Vietnam s programs for targeted transfers to the poor using Vietnam Household Living Standard Surveys. This research is prepared for Vietnam Development Report 2002 of the World Bank (Parttime work). RESEARCH PAPERS 1 Papers in Journals indexed in EconLit A Method to Update Poverty Maps, Journal of Development Studies, DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2012.682983 The Impacted of Piped Water on Household Welfare: Evidence from Vietnam, with Vu Thieu, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, accepted. Socio-economic Determinants of Smoking Behaviors in Vietnam, Economics Bulletin, accepted. Economic Impacts of International Migration and Remittances on Household Welfare in Vietnam", International Journal of Development Issues, with Daniel Mont, Vol. 11(2), 144-163. Measuring Impacts of Voluntary Health Insurance on Healthcare Utilization in Vietnam, Health Economics, Vol. 21(8), 946-966. Program Impact Evaluation Using a Matching Method with Panel Data, Statistics in Medicine, Vol. 31(6), 2012, pp. 577 588. "Do Minimum Wage Increases Cause Inflation? Evidence from Vietnam", ASEAN Economics Bulletin, Vol. 28(3), 2011, pp. 337 59. Estimation of the Impact of Rural Roads on Household Welfare in Vietnam, Asia- Pacific Development Journal, Vol. 18(2), 2011, 105-135. Disability and Poverty in Vietnam, with Daniel Mont, World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 25(2), 2011, pp. 323-359. Poverty Projection Using a Small Area Estimation Method: Evidence from Vietnam, Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 39(3), 2011, pp. 368-382. Can Vietnam Achieve Millennium Development Goal on Poverty Reduction in High Inflation and Economic Stagnation?", The Developing Economies, vol. 49(3), 297-320. 1 Several papers are found in http://ideas.repec.org/e/png36.html. All the papers can be provided on request. 3
The Impact of Work and Non-Work Migration on Household Welfare, Poverty and Inequality: New Evidence From Vietnam, with Marrit Van den Berg and Robert Lensink, Economics of Transition, Vol. 19(4), 2011, pp. 771-799. Impacts of Public and Private Transfers on Household Welfare: Evidence from Vietnam, with Marrit Van den Berg, Development Policy Review, Vol. 29(6), 2011, pp. 689-728. Construction of Poverty Maps using Agricultural Census in Rural Vietnam, with Roy van der Weide and Tran Ngoc Truong, Asian Economic Journal, Vol. 24(4), 2010, pp. 355-390. Does Agriculture Help Poverty and Inequality Reduction? Evidence from Vietnam, Agricultural Economics Review, Vol. 11(1), 2010, pp. 44-56. Updating Poverty Map without Panel Data: Evidence from Vietnam, Asian Economic Journal, Vol. 23(4), 2009, pp. 397-418. Measuring Impact of Cash Crops on Households Expenditure and Poverty in Viet Nam, Asia-Pacific Development Journal, Vol. 16(2), 2009, pp. 87-112. The Impact of International and Internal Remittances on Household Welfare: Evidence from Vietnam, Asia-Pacific Development Journal, Vol. 16(1), 2009, pp. 59-92. Updating Poverty Maps for Ho Chi Minh City of Vietnam using a Small Area Estimation Method, Economics Bulletin, Vol. 29(3), 2009, pp. 1977-1986. Does Production of Traded Agricultural Products Help Poverty Reduction in Vietnam?, Economics Bulletin, Vol. 29(2), 2009, pp. 737-746. Impact Evaluation of Multiple Overlapping Programs under a Conditional Independence Assumption, Research in Economics, Vol. 63(1), 2009, pp. 27-54. Is a Governmental Micro-Credit Program for the Poor Really Pro-Poor: Evidence from Vietnam, The Developing Economies, Vol. XLVI-2, 2008, pp. 151-187. Do Foreign Remittances Matter to Poverty and Inequality? Evidence from Vietnam, Economics Bulletin, Vol. 15(1), 2008, pp. 1-11. Estimating Impact of a Continuous Program under a Conditional Independence Assumption, The Empirical Economics Letters, Vol. 7(4), 2008, pp. 415-422. A Note on Estimation of the Average Treatment Effect and Average Partial Effect on the Treated in Nonlinear Models, Economics Bulletin, Vol. 15(15), 2008, pp. 1-13. Working papers Does Parental Disability Matter to Child Education? Evidence from Vietnam with Daniel Mont, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, no. WPS 5743, 2011. An Introduction to Alternative Methods in Program Impact Evaluation, Discussion Paper No. 33 2007, Mansholt Graduate School of Social Sciences, Wageningen University. 4
Impact Evaluation of Multiple Overlapping Programs under a Conditional Independence Assumption, Discussion Paper No. 36 2007, Mansholt Graduate School of Social Sciences, Wageningen University. Evaluating the Impacts of the Current Economic Slowdown on Unemployment in Vietnam with Pham Thai Hung and Phung Duc Tung, Policy Discussion Paper, November 2009, The United Nations Development Programme. Book review & chapters Land in Transition: Reform and Poverty in Rural Vietnam by Martin Ravallion and Dominique van de Walle, with Pham Thai Hung, The Developing Economies. The Impacts of International Remittances on Income, Work Efforts, Poverty and Inequality: New Evidence for Vietnam, with Marrit Van den Berg and Robert Lensink, a chapter in a forth coming book "Banking the World: Empirical Foundations of Financial Inclusion" edited Robert J. Cull, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Jonathan Morduch, the World Bank and MIT Press. SELECTED CONFERENCES June 2012 (3 days): The 13 th Annual Global Development Conference, Global Development Network, Budapest, Hungary. July 2011 (3 days): Regulation for Decent Work, International Labor Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. June 2010 (5 days): The 8 th Poverty Economic Policy General Meeting in Senegal. The conference is arranged by Poverty Economic Policy Network, Laval University, Canada, and United Nations, Africa. June 2010 (2 days): Cross-Border Labour Mobility and Development in the East Asia and Pacific Region, World Bank and National University of Singapore, Singapore. October 2009 (2 days): Migration, Development and Poverty Reduction in Vietnam, United Nations and Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, Hanoi, Vietnam. May 2009 (2 days): 10 th Annual Forum of East Asian Development Network, Thailand Development Research Institute, Bangkok, Thailand. June 2008 (3 days): The Workshop on Impact Evaluation of Programs in Quebec, Canada. The conference is arranged by Poverty Economic Policy Network, Laval University, Canada. January 2008 (3 days): The 9 th Annual Global Development Conference, Global Development Network, Brisbane, Australia. November 2007 (3 days): The 28 nd Workshop of Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. March 8, 2007: Presenting paper Poverty Targeting and Impact of a Governmental Micro- Credit Program in Vietnam in Social Policy Evaluation, Analysis, and Research Centre (SPEAR), Australian National University, Australia. 5
June 2006 (5 days): The 6 th Poverty Economic Policy General Meeting in Lima, Peru. The conference is arranged by Poverty Economic Policy Network, Laval University, Canada. August 2006 (3 days): Conference on Public Economic Theory, Hanoi, Vietnam. The conference is arranged by Association for Public Economic Theory. June 2005 (5 days): The 5 th Poverty Economic Policy General Meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The conference is arranged by Poverty Economic Policy Network, Laval University, Canada, and United Nations in Africa. February 2005 (2 days): Conference on Poverty Maps: Impacts and Usages, Siem Reap, Cambodia. The conference is arranged by WB Institute, DC. October 2003 (1 day): Poverty Mapping and Market Access in Vietnam. The workshop is organized by the IFPRI, DC. August 2003 (3 days): Poverty mapping and Monitoring Using Information Technology in Bangkok, Thailand. The conference is arranged by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, United Nations. November 2002 (2 days): Participant in the Asian Development Forum in Seoul, Korea. The conference is arranged by WB Institute and Asian Development Bank. MISCELLANEOUS Member: Econometrics Society. Referee: The Developing Economies, Contemporary Economic Policy, Journal of Applied Statistics, Journal of Public Administration and Policy Research, Journal of Development Effectiveness, Applied Economics. Prize for the best MSc. thesis of the Master Programme 2000-2002 in Wageningen University, the Netherlands. Thesis title is Is Economic Growth Pro-Poor in Vietnam? Evidence from 1993-1998. Second prize of the 2007 Global Development Medal (Global Development Network) for the research paper Is a Governmental Micro-Credit Program for the Poor Really Pro-Poor? Evidence from Vietnam. Grant from Poverty Economic Policy Network for study The Impact of a Micro-Credit Program on Poverty Reduction in Vietnam (2006). Grant from East Asian Development Network for study Impacts of Social Security Transfers on Poverty and Inequality in Vietnam (2008). Grant from Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia for study Linkage between Drinking Water and Poverty: Evidence from Vietnam (2009). Short listed in the 2012 Global Development Medal (Global Development Network) for the research paper The Effect of Urbanization on Poverty Reduction: Evidence from Vietnam. 6