Lecture 01: What is a “fair” start?
Dinh Vu Trang Ngan
Required reading:
Malcolm Gladwell (2008) Outliers: The Story of Success, Chapter 1, “The Matthew Effect,” New York: Little, Brown and Company.
Suggested reading:
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett (2010) The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone, Chapter 8, “Education Performance,” Penguin Books.
Lecture 02: How Do We Study Public Policy?
Jonathan Pincus
Required reading:
Jonathan Pincus (2010) “Policy Case Study: Milk Price Registration and Regulations in Vietnam: Will it Lower Milk Prices?” Fulbright School, September.
Series of articles by Cẩm Quyên and Trần Thủy
“Người tiêu dùng Việt Nam đang 'đốt' tiền mua sữa,” http://vnn.vietnamnet.vn/psks/201005/Nguoi-tieu-dung-Viet-Nam-dang-dot-tien-mua-sua-911967/
“Bó tay nhìn doanh nghiệp sữa móc túi người tiêu dùng,”
http://www.baomoi.com/Bo-tay-nhin-doanh-nghiep-sua-moc-tui-nguoi-tieu-dung/50/4323168.epi
“Phơi bày thế giới ngầm kinh doanh sữa,”
http://www.baomoi.com/Phoi-bay-the-gioi-ngam-kinh-doanh-sua/50/4327651.epi
“Lợi nhuận kếch xù từ kinh doanh sữa vào tay ai?”
http://cafef.vn/20100525083645652CA39/loi-nhuan-kech-xu-tu-kinh-doanh-sua-vao-tay-ai.chn
Suggested reading:
Sally Macintyre, Iain Chalmers, Richard Horton, Richard Smith (2001) “Using Evidence to Inform Health Policy,” BMJ, January 27, http://www.bmj.com/content/322/7280/222.full.pdf.