The authors acknowledge the generous support
of Professor Tuong Lai, Director, and Dr.
Pham Bich San, Deputy Director, of the Institute
of Sociology of the Vietnam National
Center for the Social Sciences and Humanities
in Hanoi, and of Professor Do Thai Dong
of the Institute for the Social Sciences in Ho
Chi Minh City for the Vietnam Life History
Survey (VLHS) project. They also thank
Avery Guest, William Lavely, and Mark
VanLandingham for their comments on earlier
versions of this paper. The VLHS data
were collected and coded with grants from
the Social Science Research Council and the
University of Washington Royalty Research
Fund. This article was written while the first
two authors were Fellows of the Center for
Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
and were supported, in part, by the National
Science Foundation