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| Title: | | Altruism, cooperation, and efficiency: Agricultural production in polygynous households  |
| Authors: | | Akresh, Richard Chen, Joyce J. Moore, Charity |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion Paper series, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 6265 |
| Abstract: | | Altruism among family members can, in some cases, inhibit cooperation by increasing the utility that players expect to receive in a non-cooperative equilibrium. To test this, we examine agricultural productivity in polygynous households in West Africa. We find that cooperation is greater - production is more efficient - among co-wives than among husbands and wives because co-wives are less altruistic towards each other. The results are not driven by scale effects or self-selection into polygyny. Nor can they be explained by greater propensity for cooperation among women generally or by the household head acting as an enforcement mechanism for others' cooperative agreements. |
| Subjects: | | altruism non-cooperative behavior household bargaining polygyny Africa |
| JEL: | | D13 D70 J12 O13 O55 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-201203016476 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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