Bartling, Björn; Cappelen, Alexander W.; Hermes, Henning; … - 2025 - Revised version, May 2025
This paper examines paternalistic preferences in large-scale experiments in the U.S. Participants decide whether to intervene to prevent a stakeholder, mistaken about their options, to make a choice that is misaligned with their preferences. We find that the willingness to intervene strongly...