20.500.12556/DKUM-92682 Do large, sustained economic freedom reforms hurt or improve women’s economic rights? Does economic freedom come at the expense of women’s economic rights, or does it instead help improve them? Presently, there are almost no studies investigating this issue, and what evidence exists is mostly correlational. This paper presents findings from matching analyses with the explicit aim of addressing the likely endogenous relationship between economic freedom and respect for women’s economic rights. Using the latest data (up to 2022), estimates from matching methods, as well as supplementary regressions based on conditional mixed-processes, all point to economic freedom having an improving effect. Two components of economic freedom – sound money and freedom of international trade – seem most likely to drive the aggregate result. The uncovered positive aggregate effect is robust to an extensive set of control variables, tweaks in the operationalization of treatment, and varying the post-treatment period. economic freedom women's economic rights market liberalization economic gender inequality gender discrimination ekonomska svoboda ekonomske pravice žensk tržna liberalizacija ekonomska spolna neenakost spolna diskriminacija true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Znanstveno delo 2025-05-06 13:51:31 2025-07-09 14:25:28 2025-07-10 03:36:32 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 str. [1-21] št. članka 102671 Letn. 87 april 2025 0000-00-00 NiDoloceno NiDoloceno NiDoloceno 2025-01-30 2025-01-23 2025-03-28 316.334:305 230947843 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2025.102671 0176-2680 RAZ_Rutar_Tibor_2025.pdf RAZ_Rutar_Tibor_2025.pdf 1 D9219214554D58234B8BA33DCF56B4D2 eb7235493a9115325d3781111aeab7e82ce57bc551d674c8e2121feba9b949cf 9a2a4d33-5cc0-11f0-8f2d-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=193416 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2025.102671 0 73547e68-2a70-11f0-a27b-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=190702 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0