Freedom counts: Cross-country empirical evidence

Ferreira, João; Hanaki, Nobuyuki; Le Lec, Fabrice; Schokkaert, Erik; Tarroux, Benoît

Document type :

Pré-publication ou Document de travail

Title :

Freedom counts: Cross-country empirical evidence

Author(s) :

Ferreira, João [Auteur]
University of Southampton
Hanaki, Nobuyuki [Auteur]
Osaka University [Osaka]
Le Lec, Fabrice [Auteur]
Université de Lille
Lille économie management - UMR 9221 [LEM]
Schokkaert, Erik [Auteur]
Catholic University of Leuven = Katholieke Universiteit Leuven [KU Leuven]
Tarroux, Benoît [Auteur]
Université Lumière - Lyon 2 [UL2]
Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon - Saint-Etienne [GATE Lyon Saint-Étienne]

Publication date :

2023-11-08

English keyword(s) :

Freedom of choice
Welfare
Intrinsic value
Opportunity set
Cross-cultural survey

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Economies et finances

English abstract : [en]

We investigate whether people attach intrinsic value to freedom and which theoretical rules they implicitly employ to evaluate opportunity sets. To do this, we run a new survey-based study with 4,902 participants across ...
Show more >We investigate whether people attach intrinsic value to freedom and which theoretical rules they implicitly employ to evaluate opportunity sets. To do this, we run a new survey-based study with 4,902 participants across 10 different countries. Our main result is that an overwhelming majority of subjects \textit{reveal} attaching intrinsic value to freedom. We also find that a large majority of subjects use size-based rules to rank sets in terms of freedom, while there is considerable heterogeneity in the theoretical rules they employ to rank sets in terms of welfare. These results are strikingly robust across countries.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

ANR Project :

Evaluer la valeur de la liberté : une approche expérimentale

Collections :