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Animal Welfare and Human Ethics: A Personality Study

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  • Konstanze Albrecht

    (RWTH Aachen University)

  • Florentin Krämer

    (University of Munich)

  • Nora Szech

    (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie)

Abstract

We revisit the long-standing question whether there is a relation between animal welfare and human ethics. Therefore, we elicit concern for animal welfare in an incentivized, direct, and real setup: Subjects choose between intensive farming versus organic living conditions for a hen. Guaranteeing organic living conditions is costly, but implies organic feed, access to daylight, and more space. We compare the interest in animal welfare with morally relevant dispositions in subjects, relying on well-established measures such as Machiavellianism scores and the Big 5 personality test. The data confirm a strong, positive relation between caring for animal welfare and moral dispositions.

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  • Konstanze Albrecht & Florentin Krämer & Nora Szech, 2017. "Animal Welfare and Human Ethics: A Personality Study," Working Papers 2017-065, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group.
    • Handle: RePEc:hka:wpaper:2017-065
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    Cited by:

    1. Hestermann, Nina & Le Yaouanq, Yves & Treich, Nicolas, 2020. "An economic model of the meat paradox," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 129(C).
    2. Nicolas Treich, 2018. "Veganomics : vers une approche économique du véganisme ?," Revue française d'économie, Presses de Sciences-Po, vol. 0(4), pages 3-48.

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    Keywords

    animal welfare; human ethics; experiment; sustainability;
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    JEL classification:

    • D01 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
    • D62 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Externalities
    • D69 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Other

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