Building on anthropological evidence, we develop a model of intra-household decision making on fertility and child … data from Demographic and Health Surveys in rural Mali, where polygyny rates among married women are close to 50 per cent …

find that the size of the fertility gap is positively related to the degree of polygyny in the country. Second, we find a …The most commonly used measure of reproductive behavior is the total fertility rate (TFR), which is a measure of the … number of children born per woman. However, almost no work exists measuring the fertility behavior of men. In this paper we …

Building on anthropological evidence, we develop a model of intra-household decision making on fertility and child … data from Demographic and Health Surveys in rural Mali, where polygyny rates among married women are close to 50 per cent …

group, imitative learning results in the overall adoption of cooperation—efficient contagion. Key to this result is the … easier it is for efficient contagion to take place. We highlight the importance of cycles for efficient contagion, and show … that the presence of critical edges prevents it. We also find that networks organized as dense clusters sparsely connected …

contagion, and show that the presence of critical edges prevents it. We also find that networks organized as dense clusters … seed group, imitative learning results in the overall adoption of cooperation — efficient contagion. Key to this result … seed group, the easier it is for efficient contagion to take place. We highlight the importance of cycles for efficient …

societies to prefer certain marital structures such as polygamy or monogamy. In principle, however, these benefits and … marital arrangements must be taken into account when analyzing the foundations of marriage. Monogamy always achieves efficient …

polygyny (multiple wives). Wealth inequality naturally produces multiple wives for rich men in a standard model of the marriage … of monogamy or polygamy. In particular, when inequality is determined more by disparities in human capital versus non … children more efficiently. As a result, high quality women are valued much more than low quality women, which makes polygyny …

polygyny (multiple wives). Wealth inequality naturally produces multiple wives for rich men in a standard model of the marriage … of monogamy or polygamy. In particular, when inequality is determined more by disparities in human capital versus non … children more efficiently. As a result, high quality women are valued much more than low quality women, which makes polygyny …