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

Vu, Tien Manh and Yamada, Hiroyuki (2020): Persistent legacy of the 1075–1919 Vietnamese imperial examinations in contemporary quantity and quality of education.

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.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Education; Human Capital; Imperial Examination; Historical Legacy; Vietnam
• Subjects: I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education and Research Institutions > I25 - Education and Economic Development; N - Economic History > N3 - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy > N35 - Asia including Middle East; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development > O15 - Human Resources ; Human Development ; Income Distribution ; Migration

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