Research

Thao P. Pham · University of Wisconsin–Madison

Publications

Pham, T.P. and Le, T.T.H. (2025). “Unveiling Key Determinants of Higher Education Expenditure in Vietnam: An Adaptive LASSO Approach in Tobit Regression Analysis.” Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 17(2), 833–851. [DOI]

★ Best Student Paper Award — Vietnam-America Association for Public Affairs and Policy

Pham, T.P., Nguyen, T.K.C., Truong, T.A., & Vu, N.H. (2023). “Inquiries into Farmers’ Perception of Biodiversity in Vietnam: A Systematic Analysis.” Forum for Social Economics. [DOI]

Tran, T.-V., Pham, T.P., Nguyen, M.-H., Do, L.-T., & Pham, H.-H. (2022). “Economic Efficiency of Higher Education Institutions in Vietnam Between 2012 and 2016: A DEA Analysis.” Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 15(1), 199–212. [DOI]

Works in Progress

“Confucianism and Gender Disparities in Educational Investment in Vietnam: A Spatial Analysis.”
“The Missing Link: Tracing Confucian Heritage to Understand Spatial Educational Inequality in Vietnam.”
“Educational Achievement Among Southeast Asian Refugees in the United States, England, and France: Associations with Confucian and Indochinese Legacies.”
“Natural Language Processing of Vietnamese American Community Discourse in Irvine, California.”