20.500.12556/DKUM-94184 Does economic freedom push people into suicide? new evidence from developing and developed societies, 1980-2019 This research paper investigates the impact of market liberalization on country-level suicide rates using asample of 96 developing and developed countries from1980 to 2019. We estimate fixed-effects panel regres-sion models with robust standard errors clustered atthe country level and conduct a variety of robustnesschecks, including using different estimators and disag-gregating the data. We consistently find that the aggregate Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) measure is not statistically significantly related to within-country variations in age-standardized suicide rates, but someindividual components are. Freedom to trade internationally weakly predicts increases in suicide rates, while sound money is associated with decreased suiciderates. The former result is highly vulnerable to different specifications. This study underscores the existence of acomplex, non-intuitive relationship between market liberalization and suicide rates, suggesting that both critics and defenders of liberalization might be mistaken in making any unequivocal judgments about the process. economic freedom liberalization suicide panel regressions neoliberalism ekonomska svoboda liberalizacija samomor panelne regresije neoliberalizem true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Znanstveno delo 2025-08-07 03:09:06 2025-08-27 14:10:00 2025-08-28 03:47:45 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 str. 253-272 št. 2 Letn. 84 2025 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 2024-07-24 2024-08-12 2024-09-05 316.334 208046851 10.1111/ajes.12602 0002-9246 RAZ_Rutar_Minea_2025.pdf RAZ_Rutar_Minea_2025.pdf 1 C8F608F88682EC0FC42064C25EC2391C 738fc9e8dec9931ad9150f717061aba625203f2664832491774158f598d6d606 d9c788ab-833e-11f0-8e8c-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=196624 https://doi.org/10.1111/ajes.12602 0 e4d437e0-833e-11f0-8e8c-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=196625 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0