how polygyny affects individual and aggregate fertility. We find that an attractive woman is more likely to find a high …-status husband. However, when polygyny is allowed, high-status husbands naturally attract other women; this implies that female … is not too strong. However, the societal practice of polygyny increases aggregate fertility through two distinct channels …

Polygyny rates are higher in Western Africa than in Eastern Africa. The African slave trades explain this difference … abnormal sex ratios, which impacted the rates of polygyny across Africa. In order to assess these claims, we construct a unique … ethnicity-level data set linking current rates of polygyny with historical trade flow data from the African slave trades. Our …

social capital, the family, marriage and household and the polity a host of other specific drawbacks of Becker’s economic …

Education is an important pillar in the national economic development. It contributes to economic growth in varied … education plays a key role in the development after independence. This paper discusses educational growth and development in … post-independent Eritrea. It also analyses educational finances, and challenges for development in the country and thus …

Recent empirical studies concerning the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic development have all been … relationship between the share of technology embodied into FDI and the level of economic development in the host country. …

/AIDS pandemic in development. …

return policy in the event of a great divergence of development has only a little importance. However, in a closed economy …