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Education and polygamy: Evidence from Cameroon

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educationsocioeconomic

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paper
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AndDup
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ThéAixANRANR
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CCSDElsevier
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International audience Has secular education contributed to the decline of polygamy in Africa? To answer this question, we study a wave of public school construction in late-colonial Cameroon. Our difference-in-differences and event-study specifications show that school openings have simultaneously increased education and the chances to be in a polygamous union for men and, more surprisingly, for women. We estimate a structural model of marriage to explain why education made women more likely to be in a polygamous union. The main estimated channel is marriage to educated men who are more often polygamists than uneducated men, not direct preferences for polygamy.

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PolygamyEducationMarriageMatching modelsJEL: I - Health, Education, and Welfare/I.I2 - Education and Research Institutions/I.I2.I20 - GeneralJEL: J - Labor and Demographic Economics/J.J1 - Demographic Economics/J.J1.J12 - Marriage • Marital Dissolution • Family Structure • Domestic AbuseJEL: O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth/O.O1 - Economic Development/O.O1.O12 - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development[QFIN]Quantitative Finance [q-fin]

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