Economics of Animal Welfare Conference
Brown University’s Department of Economics and Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics are hosting an interdisciplinary conference on the economics of animal welfare on July 11–12, 2024.
This conference aims to build on successful workshops on this topic at Duke University, Stanford University, and the Paris School of Economics. We welcome submissions on a range of topics that apply economic methods to understand how to value or improve animal welfare. This includes theoretical work on including losses or benefits to animals in economic analyses, applied empirical work on the effects of policies or industry structure on animal welfare, and anything else within the purview of economics as it relates to the well-being of commodity, companion, or wild animals.
Conference attendance registration is now open. Please register to attend via this form.
Conference Agenda
Venue: Crystal Ballroom (Room 104) | Alumnae Hall, 194 Meeting Street
Day 1 (July 11)
8:30 - 9:00 | Breakfast
9:00 - 9:20 | Welcome and introductions
| Bob Fischer, Kevin Kuruc, Anya Marchenko
9:20 - 10:00 | TBA
| Loren Fryxell (Oxford University)
10:20 - 11:00 | “Moral Suasion and Moral Preferences”
| Josh Tasoff (Claremont Graduate University) & Emiliano Huet-Vaughn (Pomona College)
11:20 - 12:00 | “Animal Quality-Adjusted Life Year - AQALY”
| Romain Espinosa (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)
12:00 - 2:00 | Lunch
2:00 - 2:40 | “The Social Value of Layer Hen Welfare: Evidence, Beliefs, and Voter Behavior”
| Trevor Woolley (UC Berkeley)
3:00 - 3:15 | Coffee break
3:15 - 4:45 | Lightning talks - (20 min talk, 10 min feedback, break after second speaker)
| JoJo Lee (Global Priorities Institute), Anya Marchenko (Brown University), Luis Mota
(Northwestern University)
6:30 - 8:30 | Speaker dinner at Plant City
Day 2 (July 12)
8:30 - 9:00 | Breakfast
9:00 - 9:40 | “The Impact of Animal Welfare Regulations on Pork Trade: Evidence from the
European Union”
| Shon Ferguson (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)
10:00 - 10:40 | “Facilitating Disease Transmission and GHG Emissions While Taxing Us for the
Results: The USDA’s Livestock Indemnity Program”
| Jamie McLaughlin (Lewis & Clark Law School)
11:00 - 11:40 | “Welfare quantification of diseased animals in dairy production”
| Wilma Steeneveld (Utrecht University)
12:00 - 1:30 | Lunch
1:30 - 3:00 | Lightning talks
| Daniel Bressler (Columbia University), Drew Burd / Aaron Leonard / Connor Murphy
(University of Chicago), Jacob Schmiess (Purdue University)
3:00 - 3:30 | Coffee break
3:30 - 4:10 | Keynote
| Tyler Cowen (George Mason University)
4:30 - 5:30 | Field building discussion
| Bob Fischer (Texas State University)