An Empirical Note on Economic Freedom and Income Inequality

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Do liberalization and globalization increase income inequality (2010, background): “Although participants in public debate on this topic generally have a clear opinion on the relationships, empirical evidence is surprisingly contradictory (cf. Berggren, 1999; Scully, 2002; Carter, 2007; Dreher and Gaston, 2008).”
Economic Freedom of the World: An Accounting of the Literature (2014, unknown): “Ironically, three of the eight negative articles (Bergh and Nilsson 2010; Carter 2007; Sturm, Leertouwer, and Haan 2002) appeared in journals Doucouliagos (2005) accused of being “biased” in favor of finding positive results.”
The institutions of economic freedom and entrepreneurship: evidence from panel data (2008, methodology): “…empirical studies, the economic freedom index published by the Fraser Institute (Gwartney et al. 2006) has been used to relate the institutions of economic freedom to variables such as growth and income inequality (see e.g., Doucouliagos and Ulubasoglu 2006; Berggren 1999, 2003; Carter 2007).”