Economic freedom and inequality: A survey of the empirical literature

DL Bennett - Handbook of Research on Economic Freedom, 2024 - elgaronline.com
Inequality is a pressing concern, acknowledged by scholars, leaders, and organizations
globally. Former US President Obama referred to rising inequality as 'the defining challenge …

[HTML][HTML] Unbundling the roles of human capital and institutions in economic development

HJ Faria, HM Montesinos-Yufa, DR Morales… - European Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
This research uses predicted genetic diversity unadjusted for the ancestral composition of
current populations, as a plausible source of exogenous variations for indicators of …

Income inequality, capitalism, and ethno-linguistic fractionalization

JE Sturm, J De Haan - American Economic Review, 2015 - aeaweb.org
We examine the relationship between capitalism and income inequality for a large sample of
countries using an adjusted economic freedom index as proxy for capitalism. Our results …

On the ambiguous economic freedom–inequality relationship

DL Bennett, B Nikolaev - Empirical Economics, 2017 - Springer
Previous research on the relationship between economic freedom and income inequality
has produced mixed results. We provide a short survey of this literature, identifying potential …

[HTML][HTML] Economic freedom and life satisfaction: A moderated mediation model with individual autonomy and national culture

J Graafland - European Journal of Political Economy, 2023 - Elsevier
Previous research has shown that economic freedom is associated with life satisfaction.
Nonetheless, how economic freedom affects life satisfaction remains relatively unexplored …

Growth‐equity trade‐offs in structural reforms

JD Ostry, A Berg, S Kothari - Scottish Journal of Political …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Do structural reforms that aim to boost potential output also change the distribution of
income? We shed light on this question by looking at the broad patterns in the cross‐country …

Does economic freedom boost growth for everyone?

A Bergh, C Bjørnskov - Kyklos, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
While the association between economic freedom and long‐term economic growth has
been well documented, the parallel research literature on the distributional consequences of …

Regulation and income inequality in the United States

D Chambers, C O'Reilly - European Journal of Political Economy, 2022 - Elsevier
Income inequality in the United States has risen over the past several decades. Over the
same period, federal regulatory restrictions have increased. An emerging literature shows …

Gender inequality, governance, and poverty in Sub‐Saharan Africa

MA Workneh - Poverty & Public Policy, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This article uses panel data for 34 countries in Sub‐Saharan Africa to investigate the effects
of gender inequality and governance on poverty. It applied a maximum likelihood estimation …

Inversión extranjera directa y libertad económica como determinantes del crecimiento económico de Ecuador en el corto y largo plazo

C Ortiz, A Salinas, R Alvarado… - Revista Economía y …, 2019 - scielo.senescyt.gob.ec
La presente investigación examina el efecto de la inversión extranjera directa (IED) y la
libertad económica (LE) en el crecimiento económico (PIB) en Ecuador. Se utilizó datos de …