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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 (Unpublished)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) | ||||
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| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman |
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| 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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| Number: | 1219 | ||||
| Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
| Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
| Description: | This paper also appears as CAGE Discussion paper 435 |
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