The Risk of Polygamy and Wives' Saving Behavior

In a polygamous society, all monogamous women are potentially at risk of polygamy. However, the anthropological and economic literatures are silent on the potential impact of the risk of polygamy on the economic decisions of monogamous wives. This...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Boltz, Marie, Chort, Isabelle
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
Subjects:	polygamy economic decisions savings behavior household consumption
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/10/26867824/risk-polygamy-wives-saving-behavior http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25306

id	okr-10986-25306
recordtype	oai_dc
spelling	okr-10986-253062021-04-23T14:04:29Z The Risk of Polygamy and Wives' Saving Behavior Boltz, Marie Chort, Isabelle polygamy economic decisions savings behavior household consumption In a polygamous society, all monogamous women are potentially at risk of polygamy. However, the anthropological and economic literatures are silent on the potential impact of the risk of polygamy on the economic decisions of monogamous wives. This paper explores this issue in Senegal, using individual panel data. The paper first estimates a Cox model for the probability of transition to polygamy. Second, it estimates the impact of the predicted risk of polygamy on monogamous wives' savings. The findings show a positive impact of the risk of polygamy on female savings entrusted to formal or informal institutions, which is suggestive of self-protective strategies. The increase in savings comes at the cost of reduced consumption of household food expenditures and wives' private nonfood expenses. 2016-11-01T16:25:19Z 2016-11-01T16:25:19Z 2016-10 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/10/26867824/risk-polygamy-wives-saving-behavior http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25306 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7860 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Senegal
repository_type	Digital Repository
institution_category	Foreign Institution
institution	Digital Repositories
building	World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
collection	World Bank
language	English en_US
topic	polygamy economic decisions savings behavior household consumption
spellingShingle	polygamy economic decisions savings behavior household consumption Boltz, Marie Chort, Isabelle The Risk of Polygamy and Wives' Saving Behavior
geographic_facet	Africa Senegal
relation	Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7860
description	In a polygamous society, all monogamous women are potentially at risk of polygamy. However, the anthropological and economic literatures are silent on the potential impact of the risk of polygamy on the economic decisions of monogamous wives. This paper explores this issue in Senegal, using individual panel data. The paper first estimates a Cox model for the probability of transition to polygamy. Second, it estimates the impact of the predicted risk of polygamy on monogamous wives' savings. The findings show a positive impact of the risk of polygamy on female savings entrusted to formal or informal institutions, which is suggestive of self-protective strategies. The increase in savings comes at the cost of reduced consumption of household food expenditures and wives' private nonfood expenses.
format	Working Paper
author	Boltz, Marie Chort, Isabelle
author_facet	Boltz, Marie Chort, Isabelle
author_sort	Boltz, Marie
title	The Risk of Polygamy and Wives' Saving Behavior
title_short	The Risk of Polygamy and Wives' Saving Behavior
title_full	The Risk of Polygamy and Wives' Saving Behavior
title_fullStr	The Risk of Polygamy and Wives' Saving Behavior
title_full_unstemmed	The Risk of Polygamy and Wives' Saving Behavior
title_sort	risk of polygamy and wives' saving behavior
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2016
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/10/26867824/risk-polygamy-wives-saving-behavior http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25306
_version_	1764458918637993984

The Risk of Polygamy and Wives' Saving Behavior

Similar Items