Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/271986 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 10342
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
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 identification requires the separation of instrumental value attached to autonomous choice. We propose a novel elicitation method that solves this identification 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.
Subjects: 
autonomy
preference measurement
experiment
JEL: 
D01
D90
C91
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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