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>