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All For One Or Each For Her Own: Do Polygamous Families Share And Share Alike?, Kristin Mammen
All For One Or Each For Her Own: Do Polygamous Families Share And Share Alike?, Kristin Mammen
Journal for the Advancement of Developing Economies
This paper examines whether the mother’s rank (whether she is a senior or junior wife) in polygamous households in Côte d’Ivoire injects favoritism that could lead to differential investment in children (based on mother’s rank), a concern that could cause an inefficient allocation of household resources. The hypothesis is that the younger is a junior wife relative to the senior wife, the greater favoritism she will receive from the husband, and the better her children will fare. This question is analyzed employing Ordinary Least Squares on a Living Standards Measurement Survey microdataset collected by the World Bank. An interesting pattern …