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Title
Cooperation in polygynous households |
Full text
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/82090 |
Date
2019 |
Author(s)
Abigail, B.; Dekker, M.; Janssens, W.; Kebede, B.; Kramer, B. |
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. |
Subject(s)
Nigeria; households; economic behaviour; polygamy |
Type of publication
Article / Letter to editor; Article / Letter to editor |
Source
11; 2; 266; 283; 18; American economic journal: applied economics |
Repository
Leiden - African Studies Centre Leiden
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