NE&EP Webinar on Monday, Sep. 8: Paolo Piacquadio on Intergenerational Population Ethics

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Hello everybody,

I hope that your new semester is off to a good start! We are excited to resume the Normative Economics and Economic Policy (NE&EP) webinar. We have a great lineup of talks scheduled for this semester, which you can see here. As always, we meet roughly every other Monday, at 11am EST\ 5 pm Paris (whenever these times align).

Our first talk will be on Monday, September 8th, at 11am EST\ 5pm Paris, with our very own Paolo Piacquadio (St. Gallen) presenting

Intergenerational Population Ethics

Abstract: This paper characterizes a novel class of welfare criteria for settings with endogenous population. The core innovation is to treat parents’ fertility preferences as ethically relevant, deferring to them on the quality–quantity trade-off under conditions of equality. The resulting family of criteria generalizes discounted utilitarianism by reconciling respect for parents’ fertility preferences with equity across generations. These criteria resolve long-standing normative dilemmas that afflict existing approaches to population ethics, such as total and average utilitarianism. After formal characterization, I illustrate the criterion in stylized examples and a Barro–Becker environment.

You can join the webinar with the following link:

https://uio.zoom.us/j/65136415167

We are looking forward to seeing you there and wishing you a great start of term!

All the best wishes,

Maya Eden and Paolo Piacquadio