Efficiency and Status in Polygynous Pastoralist Households
通过实地实验研究塞内加尔北部半游牧家庭，发现一夫多妻与一夫一妻家庭整体生产效率相当，但年轻妻子比年长妻子给予丈夫更多却获得更少，处境更差。
Decision-making structures may be different across polygynous and monogamous households, leading to different economic outcomes and requiring different targeting of anti-poverty programmes. We study efficiency in semi-nomadic pastoralist households in Northern Senegal with lab-in-the-field games. We find that monogamous and polygynous families are equally productively inefficient overall. However, average contributions at the household level mask differences across dyads. Junior wives receive less but give more to their husbands than senior wives, leaving junior wives worse off than other household members.