Do others’ health count for peanuts? Health, market returns, and pro-sociality
Individuals often make decisions considering both private returns and welfare impacts on others. Food safety decisions by smallholder agricultural producers exemplify this choice, particularly in low-income countries where farmers often consume some of the food crops they produce and sell or donate...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
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| author | Abate, Gashaw T. Bernard, Tanguy Deutschmann, Joshua Fall, Fatou |
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| description | Individuals often make decisions considering both private returns and welfare impacts on others. Food safety decisions by smallholder agricultural producers exemplify this choice, particularly in low-income countries where farmers often consume some of the food crops they produce and sell or donate the rest. We conduct a lab-in-the-field experiment with peanuts producers in Senegal to study the decision to invest in food safety information, exogenously varying the degree of private returns (monetary or health-wise) and welfare impacts on others. Producers are willing to pay real money for food safety information even absent the potential for private returns, but willingness to pay increases with the potential for private returns. A randomized information treatment significantly increases willingness to pay in all scenarios. Our results shed light on the complex interplay between altruism and economic decisions in the presence of externalities, and point to the potential of timely and targeted information to address food safety issues. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1755692025-12-02T21:02:52Z Do others’ health count for peanuts? Health, market returns, and pro-sociality Abate, Gashaw T. Bernard, Tanguy Deutschmann, Joshua Fall, Fatou food safety health groundnuts aflatoxins smallholders returns Individuals often make decisions considering both private returns and welfare impacts on others. Food safety decisions by smallholder agricultural producers exemplify this choice, particularly in low-income countries where farmers often consume some of the food crops they produce and sell or donate the rest. We conduct a lab-in-the-field experiment with peanuts producers in Senegal to study the decision to invest in food safety information, exogenously varying the degree of private returns (monetary or health-wise) and welfare impacts on others. Producers are willing to pay real money for food safety information even absent the potential for private returns, but willingness to pay increases with the potential for private returns. A randomized information treatment significantly increases willingness to pay in all scenarios. Our results shed light on the complex interplay between altruism and economic decisions in the presence of externalities, and point to the potential of timely and targeted information to address food safety issues. 2025-07-07 2025-07-09T17:46:35Z 2025-07-09T17:46:35Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/175569 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142320 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142685 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/115329 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/109390 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Abate, Gashaw T.; Bernard, Tanguy; Deutschmann, Joshua; and Fall, Fatou. 2025. Does others’ health count for peanuts? Health, market returns, and pro-sociality. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2346. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/175569 |
| spellingShingle | food safety health groundnuts aflatoxins smallholders returns Abate, Gashaw T. Bernard, Tanguy Deutschmann, Joshua Fall, Fatou Do others’ health count for peanuts? Health, market returns, and pro-sociality |
| title | Do others’ health count for peanuts? Health, market returns, and pro-sociality |
| title_full | Do others’ health count for peanuts? Health, market returns, and pro-sociality |
| title_fullStr | Do others’ health count for peanuts? Health, market returns, and pro-sociality |
| title_full_unstemmed | Do others’ health count for peanuts? Health, market returns, and pro-sociality |
| title_short | Do others’ health count for peanuts? Health, market returns, and pro-sociality |
| title_sort | do others health count for peanuts health market returns and pro sociality |
| topic | food safety health groundnuts aflatoxins smallholders returns |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/175569 |
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