Mani, Anandi; Mullin, Charles H. - Vanderbilt University Department of Economics - 2001
We examine the phenomenon of "pockets of teenage illegitimacy" in a model of social approval, where attitudes to such … illegitimacy are endogenously determined at a local community level. Both a woman's actual well-being and her community … multiple steady states: Pockets of high/low illegitimacy emerge even though individuals do not, per se, derive utility from …