This study investigates the impact of COVID-19 exposure on corporate cash holdings using firm data across sixteen developing and developed economies. The results show that firms reserve more cash when their exposure to COVID-19 increases. We also find a cash burn effect during the COVID-19...

This study assesses the impact of children’s health insurance programs on health care utilization and health care expenditures of children from 6 to 14 years old in Vietnam using four rounds of the Vietnam Household Living Standard Surveys from 2006 to 2012. We find a positive effect of both...

Under the assumption on conditional independence between potential outcomes and program assignment, program impacts measured by the Average Treatment Effect (ATE) and the Average Treatment Effect on Treated (ATT) can be identified and estimated using cross-section regression or propensity score...