COEP Replication Package for "Economic Freedom and Legal Gender Disparity"

<span>Using
a panel dataset from 1970-2019, this paper theorizes and empirically
demonstrates that countries with higher levels of economic freedom have fewer legal
differences between men’s and women's economics rights. Specifically, economic
freedom promotes equal legal treatment of women to work, get paid, and be
entrepreneurs. This finding
is robust to controlling for income, political institutional quality, and
country and period fixed effects. Furthermore, economic freedom’s impact is
amplified in democratic countries. The results challenge the prevailing notion
that capitalism is detrimental to women, instead providing evidence that economically
free countries favor less legal discrimination against women.</span>

本研究采用1970年至2019年的面板数据集（panel dataset），从理论层面构建分析框架并通过实证研究证实：经济自由化程度越高的国家，男女两性经济权利的法定差异越小。具体而言，经济自由能够推动女性在就业、获取薪酬与创业方面获得平等的法律待遇。该研究结论在控制了收入水平、政治制度质量以及国家和时期固定效应的条件下依然保持稳健。此外，在民主国家中，经济自由的促进效应会得到进一步增强。本研究结果驳斥了"资本主义对女性有害"这一主流认知，反而为"经济自由的国家对女性的法定歧视程度更低"提供了实证依据。