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The Risk of Polygamy and Wives' Saving Behaviour

Boltz, Marie; Chort, Isabelle (2015), The Risk of Polygamy and Wives' Saving Behaviour, Annual International Conference 2015 of the Research Group on Development Economics of the German Economic Association : "Development Economics and Policy", 2015-06, Kiel, Germany

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Communication / Conférence
Date
2015
Conference title
Annual International Conference 2015 of the Research Group on Development Economics of the German Economic Association : "Development Economics and Policy"
Conference date
2015-06
Conference city
Kiel
Conference country
Germany
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Boltz, Marie cc
Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques [PJSE]
Chort, Isabelle cc
Abstract (EN)
In a polygamous society, all monogamous women are virtually at risk of polygamy. However,both the anthropological and economic literature are silent on the potential impact of therisk of polygamy on economic decisions of monogamous wives. We explore this issue forSenegal using individual panel data. We rst estimate a Cox model for the probability oftransition to polygamy. Second, we estimate the impact of the predicted risk of polygamyon monogamous wives' savings. We nd a positive impact of the risk of polygamy on femalesavings entrusted to formal or informal institutions, consistent with self-insurance strategies.
Subjects / Keywords
survival analysis; savings; informal insurance strategy; Polygamy; labour supply; intra-household resource allocation
JEL
J12 - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
D13 - Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
D14 - Household Saving; Personal Finance
J22 - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
O12 - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development

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