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SUMMARY:amse seminar - Romain Espinosa
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DESCRIPTION:Animal welfare has become a major concern in our societies\, an
 d a growing number of citizens call for political action to protect animals
 . However\, economic theory and policy- makers lack the appropriate tools t
 o assess the overall impact on social welfare of policies aimed to improve 
 animal well-being. In this paper\, I propose to fill this gap and present a
 n easily-implementable theoretical model to evaluate the welfare impact of 
 such policies. The model considers both human (animal-regarding) preference
 s and animal welfare. The gains in animal welfare are estimated by reviewin
 g the violations of the animals’ fundamental freedoms that would be avoid
 ed thanks to the policy and are expressed in monetary equivalents using uti
 lity potential functions. I then apply this framework to twenty policy prop
 osals discussed in France in 2020. The policies cover a large range of anim
 al-welfare issues\, including wild\, domestic\, farmed\, or laboratory anim
 als. I use a survey on a representative sample of the French population (N=
 1\,485) to estimate the average willingness-to-pay (WTP) for each policy. I
  show that policies improving animal welfare benefit from a large popular s
 upport\, and that French citizens report large WTPs for their implementatio
 n (between 15 and 39 euros per citizen per year). The results reveal a stro
 ng heterogeneity in the impact on animal welfare\, ranging from 0.013 to 3\
 ,618 euros per citizen per year. Last\, I show that the impacts on human an
 d animal welfare do not necessarily correlate. It is therefore important to
  value animal welfare per se to determine the set of welfare-increasing pol
 icies.\\n\\nContact: Ewen Gallic : ewen.gallic[at]univ-amu.frAvner Seror : 
 avner.seror[at]univ-amu.fr\n\nPlus d'informations: https://www.amse-aixmars
 eille.fr/fr/evenements/romain-espinosa
LOCATION:Îlot Bernard du Bois - Amphithéâtre\, AMU - AMSE\, 5-9 boulevar
 d Maurice Bourdet\, 13001 Marseille
URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.amse-aixmarseille.fr/fr/evenements/romain-espinosa
CONTACT:Ewen Gallic : ewen.gallic[at]univ-amu.frAvner Seror : avner.seror[a
 t]univ-amu.fr
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