Freundt, Jana Herz, Holger Kopp, Leander 2026 Personal autonomy has been argued to be fundamental to well-being and is often discussed as an important driver of economic and political behavior. However, preferences for autonomy remain poorly understood. We propose a novel elicitation method for an individual’s intrinsic preference for choice autonomy that fully controls for instrumental value benefits of choice. We show that, while a majority of subjects in our experiment display a preference for choice autonomy, a significant minority is averse to their own choice. application/pdf https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/335667 https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/335667/files/freundtherzkopp-choosingnottochoose-jpubeversion.pdf https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/335667/files/freundtherzkopp-autonomyappendix.pdf eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2026.105681 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/0047-2727 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess CC BY Journal of Public Economics. - Elsevier BV. - 2026, vol. 259, p. 105681 Preferences for Choice Autonomy Preferences for Randomization Preference Measurement Dynamically Optimized Sequential Experiment info:eu-repo/classification/udc/33 Choosing (not) to choose: Uncovering intrinsic preferences for choice autonomy http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501