Curriculum Vitae
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Fields
- Primary: Applied Econometrics, Agricultural Economics
- Secondary: Environmental and Resource Economics
Education
- Ph.D. in Agricultural and Applied Economics, Virginia Tech, 2023 to expected Summer 2027
- M.Sc. in Business and Financial Economics, University of Greenwich, 2015
- B.A. in Economics, National Economics University, Vietnam, 2008
Work Experience
- Graduate Research Assistant, Virginia Tech, 2023 to present
- Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Blacksburg, VA
- Research Assistant and Data Analyst, International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Asia Hub, 2018 to 2022
- Hanoi, Vietnam, held concurrently with the VIE research post
- Contributed to salinity-intrusion impact assessment in the Mekong Delta (2019 to 2022) and cassava production and value-chain research in Vietnam (2019 to 2021)
- Developed questionnaires and programmed CSPro data-entry applications for two household surveys (rice farming under salinity; cassava production), each covering about 1,000 farm households
- As field supervisor, led roughly three-day trainings for teams of about 12 enumerators, supervised data collection, cleaned and analyzed the data, and contributed to co-authored research
- Researcher, Vietnam Institute of Economics, 2010 to 2023
- Hanoi, Vietnam
- Led projects on the dynamics of farm and non-farm employment in Vietnam’s rural economy (2022) and agricultural structure under climate change in the Mekong Delta (2021), from proposal development through analysis and final reports
- Contributed to research on household economic functions, labour productivity, structural transformation, agricultural value chains, and farm-firm linkages
Research
Job Market Paper
Ta, Duong, Mario Ortez, Bradford Mills, and Michael Cary. 2026. "Estimating the Economic Impacts of Climate Stress on U.S. Dairy Production: Evidence from Debiased Machine Learning and Simulation-Based Estimator Choice." Working paper, draft v1.5, October 19.
Working Papers
Ta, Duong, Bradford Mills, Kurt Stephenson, and John Fike. "Economic Feasibility and Carbon Sequestration of Silvopasture in the Southeastern U.S." Submitted to a journal and under review.
Journal Articles
Mills, Bradford, Chi Ta, Duong Phuc Ta, and Huong Nguyen. 2025. "Salinity Inundation, Profitability, and Rice Farming Exits in Mekong Delta of Vietnam." Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association 4(2): 170-186.
Mills, Bradford, Dung Phuong Le, Duong Phuc Ta, Lien Nhu, Danh Thanh Vo, and Ricardo Labarta. 2022. "Intensive and extensive rice farm adaptations in salinity-prone areas of the Mekong Delta." Climate and Development 15(2): 162-176.
Nguyen, Dinh Chuc, and Phuc Duong Ta. 2019. "Trade, Structural Adjustments and Productivity Growth in Vietnam: The Shift to Services." Journal of Southeast Asian Economies 36(2): 256-273.
Ta, Phuc Duong. 2015. "Effects of Capital Flows on Housing Prices in Emerging Economies: A Panel Approach." Vietnam's Socio-Economic Development, No. 81 (April 2015).
Journal Articles in Vietnamese
Ta, Phuc Duong. 2023. "Welfare impacts of non-farm livelihood participation of households in Vietnamese rural area." Journal of Economic Studies 12(523). Published in Vietnamese.
Ta, Phuc Duong. 2021. "Impacts of agricultural portfolio changes on farm household income under the context of climate changes in Vietnam Mekong Delta." Journal of Economic Studies 12(523). Published in Vietnamese.
Ta, Phuc Duong, and Thi Anh Tuyet Nguyen. 2018. "Trends in economic functions of Vietnamese households." Journal of Economic Studies 7(482). Published in Vietnamese.
Ta, Phuc Duong. 2017. "Regional and industrial specialization of labour in Vietnam." Journal of Regional Sustainable Development 12. Published in Vietnamese.
Conference Presentations
Ta, Duong Phuc, Bradford Mills, Kurt Stephenson, John Fike, and Tom Stanley. 2025. "Economic Feasibility and Carbon Sequestration of Silvopasture in the Southeastern U.S." Presented at the AAEA-WAEA Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2025, Denver, CO.
Nguyen, Chien Thang, and Phuc Duong Ta. 2019. "Changing trend of production function of Vietnamese households." RC06-VSA International Conference: The Family in Modern and Global Societies, October 17-19, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Teaching
- Graduate Teaching Assistant, Virginia Tech, 2023 to present
- Field Supervisor and Enumerator Trainer, International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), 2019 to 2022
- Led roughly three-day trainings for teams of about 12 enumerators on the questionnaire and CSPro data-entry application before each of two household surveys, then supervised fieldwork
See the teaching page for teaching philosophy and course readiness.
Skills
- Statistical and econometric software: Stata, R, Python, MATLAB, SQL, LaTeX
- Geospatial and remote sensing: Google Earth Engine
- Machine learning and data science: scikit-learn, TensorFlow, Keras
- Reproducibility and collaboration: Git, GitHub, Quarto, VS Code
- Research methods: Econometrics, causal inference, microeconomic methods, cost-benefit analysis, machine learning, survey design, experimental design, data management, data visualization
- Additional training: Machine Learning Specialization, Stanford University via Coursera (3 courses), 2025
Professional Membership
- Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA)
Languages
- Vietnamese (native), English (fluent)
