Economic freedom is robustly associated with income growth, but does this association extend to the poorest in a society? In this paper, we employ Canada’s longitudinal cohorts of income mobility between 1982 and 2018 to answer this question. We find that economic freedom, as measured by the...

Every Congress since 1933 has enacted domestic preference legislation mandating that the federal government favor U.S. Products in contracting. The Buy American Act of 1933 is the first and most comprehensive piece of domestic preference legislation. It was initially enacted with the purpose of...