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Freedom of choice Welfare Intrinsic value Opportunity set Cross-cultural survey C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods/C.C8 - Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology • Computer Programs/C.C8.C83 - Survey Methods • Sampling Methods D - Microeconomics/D.D6 - Welfare Economics/D.D6.D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement I - Health, Education, and Welfare/I.I3 - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty/I.I3.I31 - General Welfare, Well-BeingSujets proches
Personal liberty Freedom Civil liberty Emancipation LiberationCiter ce document
João V Ferreira et al., « Freedom counts: Cross-country empirical evidence », HAL-SHS : économie et finance, ID : 10670/1.xcryqq
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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.