The Risk of Polygamy and Wives’ Saving Behavior

In a polygamous society, all monogamous women are potentially at risk of polygamy. However, both the anthropological and economic literatures are silent on the potential impact of the risk of polygamy on economic decisions of monogamous wives. We explore this issue for Senegal using individual panel...

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Main Authors: Boltz, Marie, Chort, Isabelle
Published: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2020
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34295