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Replication data for: Cooperation in Polygynous Households

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Abigail Barr; Marleen Dekker; Wendy Janssens; Bereket Kebede; Berber Kramer

Version:  View help for Version V1

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Project Citation: 

Barr, Abigail, Dekker, Marleen, Janssens, Wendy, Kebede, Bereket, and Kramer, Berber. Replication data for: Cooperation in Polygynous Households. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2019. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113730V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary 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.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      C93 Field Experiments
      D13 Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
      J12 Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
      O12 Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development


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