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Title:Cooperation in Polygynous Households
Authors:Barr, Abigail
Dekker, MarleenISNI
Janssens, Wendy
Kebede, BereketISNI
Kramer, Berber
Year:2019
Periodical:American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (ISSN 1945-7782)
Volume:11
Issue:2
Pages:266-283
Language:English
Geographic terms:Africa
world
Subjects:polygamy
households
External link:https://doi.org/10.1257/app.20170438
Abstract:Using a carefully designed series of public goods games, we compare, across monogamous and polygynous households, the willingness of husbands and wives to cooperate to maximize household gains. Compared to monogamous husbands and wives, polygynous husbands and wives are less cooperative, one with another, and co-wives are least cooperative, one with another. The husbands' and wives' behavior in a corresponding series of inter-household games indicates that these differences cannot be attributed to selection of less cooperative people into polygyny. Finally, behavior in polygynous households is more reciprocal and less apparently altruistic.
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