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Pet Overpopulation: An Economic Analysis

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Stephen Coate
Brian Knight

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This paper considers the problem of pet overpopulation. It develops a tractable dynamic model whose positive predictions square well with key features of the current U.S. market for pets. The model is used to understand, from a welfare economic perspective, the sense in which there is \overpopulation" of pets and the underlying causes of the problem. The paper also employs the model to consider what policies might be implemented to deal with the problem. A calibrated example is developed to illustrate these corrective policies and quantify the welfare gains they produce.

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Paper provided by Brown University, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 2009-7.

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