Productivity, Rank, and Returns in Polygamy
Productivity, Rank, and Returns in Polygamy
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一夫多妻制中的生产力、排名和回报
作者：
J. Matz
这项研究揭示了一夫多妻制背景下的家庭结构的发展，特别强调妻子的顺序，并提供了一个解释之间的关联的结果的孩子和他们的母亲在妻子中的地位，根据可观察到的母亲的特点。在一个简单的框架中，我建议根据女性的生产力来选择妻子的等级：高生产力的女性在婚姻市场上比低生产力的女性更受欢迎，这使她们更有可能成为第一任妻子。此外，生产力与妻子在家庭收入中用于自己和子女消费和投资的议价份额呈正相关，因为妻子对家庭收入的贡献更大，外部选择也更多。经验支持的调查结果之间的正相关关系的指标，女性生产力和妇女的妻子之间的资历水平，并通过一个简洁的复制现有的证据有关的妻子为了子女的教育成果在埃塞俄比亚农村的家庭调查数据。
This study sheds light on the development of family structures in a polygamous context with a particular emphasis on wife order, and offers an explanation for the association between outcomes of children and the status of their mothers among wives based on observable maternal characteristics. In a simple framework, I propose that selection into rank among wives with respect to female productivity takes place: highly productive women are more strongly demanded in the marriage market than less productive women, giving them a higher chance of becoming first wives. Furthermore, productivity is positively associated with a wife’s bargained share of family income to be spent on consumption and investment for herself and her offspring because of greater contributions to family income and larger outside options. The findings are empirically supported by a positive relationship between indicators of female productivity and women’s levels of seniority among wives, and by a concise replication of existing evidence relating wife order to children’s educational outcomes in household survey data from rural Ethiopia.