While we have decades of evidence that economically free economies grow faster and are more productive than un-free ones, we have less knowledge about the effect of economic freedom on groups that have traditionally been disadvantaged. I study the causal effects of large and sustained jumps in economic freedom on women’s labor force participation and
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While we have decades of evidence that economically free economies grow faster and are more productive than un-free ones, we have less knowledge about the effect of economic freedom on groups that have traditionally been disadvantaged. I study the causal effects of large and sustained jumps in economic freedom on women’s labor force participation and primary school enrollment. I find that these jumps have a positive and significant effect in both cases–economic freedom is good for women’s labor force opportunities and female education.
That is from Robin Grier at TTU.
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