20.500.12556/DKUM-92675 Liberalizing reforms do not cause suicide causal estimation using matching, 1980–2019 The impact of market liberalization on the subjective well-being (SWB) of societies has been thoroughly investigated over the past two decades using indexes of economic freedom. However, one crucial related aspect of well-being at the societal level remains unexplored with aggregate measures of liberalization: rates of suicide. The critical literature on liberalization suggests market reforms are expected to boost suicide. To our knowledge, we are the first to explore the issue using the Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) measure in a quasi-experimental frame work. We do so by identifying 43 countries experiencing large, sustained jumps in economic freedom. We then use matching methods to obtain the average treatment effect in the 10 years following the jump. Our main finding, which is robust to a variety of alternative specifications, including a different estimator (synthetic difference-in-differences), is that we detect virtually no statistically significant positive effect of aggregate liberalization on suicide at the conventional level. Thus, we are unable to corroborate the critics’ prediction about reforms worsening this aspect of psychological well-being. We find evidence that individual reform packages, such as sound money, instead even work protectively vzročno sklepanje kvazieksperimentalne metode ekonomska svoboda samomor neoliberalizem causal interference quasi-experimental methods economic freedom suicide neoliberalism true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Znanstveno delo 2025-05-06 13:47:37 2025-07-09 13:24:25 2025-07-10 03:36:32 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 str. 272-289 št. 1 Letn. 53 2025 0000-00-00 NiDoloceno Objavljeno NiDoloceno 2024-09-11 2025-01-08 2025-01-12 316.334(4)"1980/2019" 224177411 10.1016/j.jce.2025.01.003 0147-5967 RAZ_Rutar_Tibor_2025.pdf RAZ_Rutar_Tibor_2025.pdf 1 6035C50BCB31D1B8A2006EDD97B86126 f25cdf411ef54c85af842ab44bc75fcf9e60feda855744472476d7372ef99b45 94001f49-5cb8-11f0-8f2d-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=193415 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2025.01.003 1 e7f96db9-2a6f-11f0-a27b-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=190695 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0