Predicting State-Wide Votes on Ballot Initiatives to Ban Battery Cages and Gestation Crates

Katie Smithson, Max Corbin, Jayson Lusk and Bailey Norwood ()

Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2014, vol. 46, issue 01, 18

Abstract: After California voters decided in a state initiative to ban gestation crates and battery cages, some are asking whether other states will host similar initiatives and if they will pass. This study addresses this question by using voting data in California to predict how voters in other states would respond to a similar initiative. Results suggest that a number of states allow such initiatives and possess a demographic profile favorable to the initiative’s passage. However, because these states host only a small portion of the livestock population, the impact of such initiatives on the well-being of farm animals is questionable.

Keywords: Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; International Relations/Trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.169051

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