We provide a brief overview of why and how power is important to leaders. The scholarly
fields of power and leadership both have rich histories yet have largely developed …

People sometimes make choices that are detrimental to their welfare. This creates
opportunities for paternalistic interventions (Camerer, Issacharoff, Loewenstein …

Power—the asymmetric control of valued resources—affects most human interactions.
Although power is challenging to study with real-world data, a distinctive dataset allowed us …

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 …

We examine whether biases identified in the behavioral-economics literature apply in
decision-making for others (DMfO). We conduct a laboratory experiment in which subjects …

Core organization design issues have emerged in recent popular and influential discussions
of managers and organizations, specifically in a genre of writing—the “bossless company …

This paper aims to investigate the motives behind an intrinsic value of decision rights. Based
on a series of experimental treatments conducted in France and Japan, we measure how …

This paper experimentally studies individuals' willingness to pay for the authority to make
risky decisions for themselves, and the willingness to take responsibility for others, as …

We study experimentally when, why, and how people intervene in others' choices. Choice
Architects (CAs) construct opportunity sets containing bundles of time-indexed payments for …

According to the theoretical freedom-of-choice literature and a growing body of experiments,
the economic value of a decision right is reflected not only in its instrumental value, but also …