Pricing Welfare: Animals in Cost-Benefit Analysis

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Federal agencies’ cost-benefit analyses do not capture animals’ interests. This omission matters.

​Cost-benefit analysis drives many regulatory decisions that substantially affect many billions of animals. That omission creates a regulatory blind spot that is untenable as a matter of morality and of policy. This paper argues why agencies should reject this status quo and lays out tractable options for implementing that vision.

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​About the presenter:

​Andy Stawasz holds a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School and a B.S. with Honors from Cornell University. He is currently a legal fellow at the Institute for Policy Integrity, a regulation-focused think tank at New York University School of Law. He was in the inaugural cohort of Brooks Institute Emerging Scholars Fellows, where he worked on animal law scholarship, and an Advisor at the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, where he worked on regulatory policy and cost-benefit analysis.