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New Publication [19.06.26]
Two members of our team and an external researcher have published the new working paper "Non-anthropocentric cost-benefit analysis based on animals’ willingness to pay"The 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 authors introduce two new concepts of farm animals’ WTP, refine existing approaches, and show how these methods can help integrate animal welfare more systematically into economic policy evaluation.
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