News from the team  [08.07.26]

This year’s Animal Welfare Economics Conference took place on June 29 and 30, 2026, at the University of Chicago. Sara Dusel gave a presentation on “Non-anthropocentric cost-benefit analysis based on animals’ willingness to pay,” presented findings from her latest working paper.

That paper explores how experimental data on animals’ own preferences and choices can be translated into measures of their “willingness to pay” (WTP), so that impacts on animals can be accounted for economically in cost-benefit analyses. In other words, it develops new ways to estimate how much farm animals would, in principle, be willing to pay for better living conditions. 

The working paper is available on HohPublica: Dusel, S., von Keyserlingk, M. A. G., & Wieck, C. (2026, June). Non-anthropocentric cost-benefit analysis based on animals’ willingness to pay. doi.org/10.60848/14058

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