The correlations between economic freedom and human capabilities (e.g., income, health, education, happiness) are … robust and well-documented. Using panel data for US charitable donations from itemized tax returns and the Economic Freedom … of North America (EFNA) Index, we examine the state-level correlation between economic freedom and philanthropy in …

What is the relationship, if any, between economic freedom and pandemics? This paper addresses this question from a …. We illustrate this relationship by testing how initial levels of economic freedom (at the start of the major influenza …

of economic freedom, and the risk and characteristics of economic crisis. After offering some brief theoretical … considerations, I estimate the effects of economic freedom on crisis risk in the post-Cold War period 1993-2010. I further estimate … period. Estimates suggest that economic freedom is robustly associated with smaller peak-to-trough ratios and shorter …

. Using Economic Freedom of the World as a measure of free economic institutions, it finds that a one standard deviation …This paper tests the hypothesis that the presence of economic inequality may lead to erosions of economic freedom … economic freedom, this evidence underscores the importance of stressing reforms free market proponents are confident will …

of Economic Freedom confirm that the significant rebound in world economic freedom reported in the 2014 Index was no … fluke. While the growth in economic freedom has slowed over the past year, the global average economic freedom score has … economic freedom that evaluate the rule of law, the intrusiveness and size of government, regulatory efficiency, and the …

anniversary of the Index of Economic Freedom. With its user friendly format and straight-forward analysis, readers can track up to … two decades of advancement in economic freedom, prosperity, and opportunity.The Index covers 10 freedoms – from property … rights to entrepreneurship – in 186 countries.The United Kingdom’s economic freedom score is 74.9, making its economy the 14 …