...Robert Sugden Individual autonomy (or self-determination) is increasingly treated by economists as a dimension of value, complementary with welfare, efficiency and distributional equality. Many contributors to this literature acknowledge Deci and Ryan’s self-determination theory as providing...

... in the study of happiness. In this study, we conducted a survey of 20,000 Japanese nationals and analyzed the respondents’ data by using income, education, health, human relations, and self-determination as explanatory variables. The results show that the sense of wellbeing in relation to age drops at around...

...David Chavanne Surveys and experiments have uncovered a strong connection between perceptions of self-determination and preferences for redistribution. This paper presents results from a vignette-based survey that examines whether redistributive preferences are further affected...