polygyny (multiple wives). Wealth inequality naturally produces multiple wives for rich men in a standard model of the marriage … market where polygyny is not ruled out. Our model demonstrates, however, that while higher male inequality generates more … polygyny, higher female inequality produces a more monogamous equilibrium. Moreover, we derive how female inequality in the …

younger women. Such a situation often coincides with polygyny, i.e. men having children with more than one woman. Indeed we … find that the size of the fertility gap is positively related to the degree of polygyny in the country. Second, we find a …