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Barr, Abigail, Dekker, Marleen, Janssens, Wendy, Kebede, Bereket 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4163-6614 and Kramer, Berber
(2019)
Cooperation in polygynous households.
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 11 (2).
pp. 266-283.
ISSN 1945-7782
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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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | household resource allocation,cooperative decision-making,polygyny,nigeria |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development) |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Gender and Development Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Impact Evaluation Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Experimental Economics (former - to 2017) Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Behavioural and Experimental Development Economics |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 10 May 2018 08:30 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Jun 2023 13:22 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/67003 |
| DOI: | 10.1257/APP.20170438 |
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