The Price of Humane: Impacts of Animal Confinement Laws on Consumers and Pork Supply Chain

Wuit Yi Lwin, Shawn Arita, Joseph Cooper, Andrew Keller and Sandro Steinbach

No 404390, 2026 Annual Meeting, July 26 - 28, 2026, Kansas City, Missouri from Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

Abstract: California’s Proposition 12 imposed retail-level animal-confinement requirements (ACL) on pork sold in the state beginning in January 2024. We combine two empirical strategies to estimate the impacts of Proposition 12 along the pork supply chain and consumers. First, we estimate a linear-approximate Almost Ideal Demand System (LA-AIDS) using pre-policy data to recover the full demand elasticity matrix and derive welfare measures. Second, we employ a vertical supply-chain decomposition that links wholesale ACL premiums from the USDA Livestock Mandatory Reporting (LMR) database to retail scanner data, allowing us to estimate the pass-through rate and quantify the economic burden borne at each stage of the supply chain.

Keywords: Agricultural; and; Food; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 2
Date: 2026
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.404390

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