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Behavioral economics and animal welfare.5/19/2021 People seem to care about animals to a certain extent. That is, some people care about some animals, at least sometimes, to some degree. The “big challenge” is to build on the small extent to which people do care about animals in order to improve significantly animal welfare in our societies. Besides, strong opposing economic and political forces limit the use of market, fiscal or legal instruments in favor of animals. In this lecture, I will present some recent work in behavioral economics, i.e., work carried out at the interface of economics and other behavioral sciences. This work may help address the big challenge by better understanding people choices (e.g., dietary habits, donations or voting), and in turn by nudging them toward more animal-friendly choices. Nicolas Treich(Toulouse School of Economics and INRAE, University Toulouse Capitole) Comments are closed.
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