10.17889/E113644V1
Kramer, Berber
Janssens, Wendy
Kebede, Bereket
Dekker, Marleen
Barr, Abigail
Replication data for: Cooperation in Polygynous Households
ICPSR Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
2019
10.1257/app.20170438
10.1257/app.20170438
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Using a carefully designed series of public goods games, we compare, across monogamous and polygynous households, the willingness of husbands and wives to cooperate to maximize household gains. Compared to monogamous husbands and wives, polygynous husbands and wives are less cooperative, one with another, and co-wives are least cooperative, one with another. The husbands' and wives' behavior in a corresponding series of inter-household games indicates that these differences cannot be attributed to selection of less cooperative people into polygyny. Finally, behavior in polygynous households is more reciprocal and less apparently altruistic.