Animal Welfare and Eggs - Cheap Talk or Money on the Counter?
利用家庭面板数据结合真实购买与调查，估计消费者对有机鸡蛋中动物福利属性的支付意愿，发现动物福利在实际需求中作用较小。
Our estimate revealed willingness to pay for animal welfare using a panel mixed logit model. We utilise a unique household level panel, combining real purchases with survey data on perceived public and private good attributes of different types of eggs. We estimate willingness to pay for organic eggs controlling for trust in a positive connection between the public good animal welfare and the organic label and the private good food safety also connected to the label. Our results suggest that in the real world, animal welfare plays a minor role in the demand for agricultural products.