Adshade, Marina E.; Kaiser, Brooks A. - Economics Department, Queen's University - 2008
lifetime fertility. Multiple equilibria in terms of the dominant form of marriage (for example, polygyny or monogamy) are … increased resource inequality among men. We propose a theory, within the framework of a matching model of marriage, in which, in … some cases, institutionalized monogamy prevails, even when resources are unequally distributed, as a result of agricultural …