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Education and polygamy : evidence from Cameroon

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Andre, Pierre and Dupraz, Yannick (2019) Education and polygamy : evidence from Cameroon. Working Paper. Coventry: University of Warwick. Department of Economics. Warwick economics research papers series (WERPS) (1219). (Unpublished)

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Abstract

We take advantage of a wave of school constructions in Cameroon after World War II and use variations in school supply at the village level to estimate labor and marriage market returns to education in the 1976 population census. Education increases the likelihood to be in a polygamous union for men and for women, as well as the overall socioeconomic status of the spouse. We argue that education increases polygamy for women because it allows them to marry more educated and richer men, who are more likely to be polygamists. To show this, we estimate a structural model of marriage with polygamy. The positive affinity between a man’s polygamy and a woman’s education is mostly explained by the affinity of education.

Item Type: Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper)
Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology
H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Polygamy -- Cameroon, Women -- Education -- Cameroon, Marriage -- Cameroon
Series Name: Warwick economics research papers series (WERPS)
Publisher: University of Warwick. Department of Economics
Place of Publication: Coventry
ISSN: 0083-7350
Official Date: August 2019
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August 2019Published
Number: 1219
Institution: University of Warwick
Status: Not Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Unpublished
Access rights to Published version: Open Access (Creative Commons)
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This paper also appears as CAGE Discussion paper 435

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