Intrinsic Preferences for Autonomy
BP2-STS
- Freundt, Jana ORCID University of Fribourg
- Herz, Holger ORCID University of Fribourg
- Kopp, Leander University of Fribourg
- 2023
English
Personal autonomy has been argued to be fundamental to well-being and is often discussed as an important driver of economic and political behavior. Yet, preferences for autonomy are not well understood, because their identi fication requires the separation of instrumental value attached to autonomous choice. We propose a novel elicitation method that solves this identi fication challenge. We establish the existence of intrinsic preferences for choice autonomy and show substantial heterogeneity in a large online sample. We further study their antecedents by relating them to existing personality scales and socioeconomic characteristics. Finally, we test their association with other preferences, attitudes and beliefs.
- Collections
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales et du management
- Language
-
- English
- Classification
- Economics
- Series statement
-
- Working Papers SES ; 530
- License
- License undefined
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/324464
Statistics
Document views: 309
File downloads:
- WP_SES_530.pdf: 303