Animal welfare as a public good

Romain Espinosa () and Nicolas Treich
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Romain Espinosa: CIRED - Centre International de Recherche sur l'Environnement et le Développement - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - AgroParisTech - ENPC - École nationale des ponts et chaussées - Université Paris-Saclay - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: We study a simple model of consumption of animals in which consumers exhibit altruism towards animals. Consumers can choose both the quantity and the quality of animal lives. This model gives rise to a public good problem: at the market equilibrium, quality is too low, and quantity is too high when animal lives are not worth living. We discuss some implications of our results and the significance of our modeling choices for the future landscape of economic research on animal welfare.

Keywords: Animal welfare; Public good; Altruism; Meat; Life worth living (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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Published in Ecological Economics, 2024, 216, pp.108025. ⟨10.1016/j.ecolecon.2023.108025⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2023.108025

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