Are you referring to the Index of Economic Freedom in the second paper? 1. The data is freely available and you can check the methodology yourself: https://www

Are you referring to the Index of Economic Freedom in the second paper? 1. The data is freely available and you can check the methodology yourself: https://www.heritage.org/index/pdf/2016/book/methodology.pdf https://www.heritage.org/index/pdf/2016/book/methodology.pdf 2. "We check the robustness of our results using alternative freedom indices."