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 …

necessarily mean that giving money to women is a good development policy. We show that depending on the nature of the production …

differences in women’s transition to first marriage. The model specification accounts for both spatial and temporal changes in … the socio-economic context of transition to marriage. We found ethnic-specific responses on women’s marriage timing to …

literature, calling it the Lump of Learning model of human capital and development, and describes five ways that research has … Lump of Learning model, pointing toward a new paradigm for research on skilled migration and development. …