Cooperation in polygynous households
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 an...
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| author | Barr, Abigail Dekker, Marleen Janssens, Wendy Kebede, Bereket Kramer, Berber |
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| description | 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. (JEL C93, D13, J12, O12) |
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| spelling | CGSpace1466552025-12-08T10:06:44Z Cooperation in polygynous households Barr, Abigail Dekker, Marleen Janssens, Wendy Kebede, Bereket Kramer, Berber public goods households experimentation marriage monogamy cooperation 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. (JEL C93, D13, J12, O12) 2019-04-16 2024-06-21T09:07:58Z 2024-06-21T09:07:58Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146655 en https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133514 Limited Access American Economic Association Barr, Abigail; Dekker, Marleen; Janssens, Wendy; Kebede, Bereket; and Kramer, Berber. 2019. Cooperation in polygynous households. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 11(2): 266-283. https://doi.org/10.1257/app.20170438 |
| spellingShingle | public goods households experimentation marriage monogamy cooperation Barr, Abigail Dekker, Marleen Janssens, Wendy Kebede, Bereket Kramer, Berber Cooperation in polygynous households |
| title | Cooperation in polygynous households |
| title_full | Cooperation in polygynous households |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Cooperation in polygynous households |
| title_short | Cooperation in polygynous households |
| title_sort | cooperation in polygynous households |
| topic | public goods households experimentation marriage monogamy cooperation |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146655 |
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