Bethmann, Dirk - Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaft, … - 2011
Marriage regimes exist in many guises and forms. Economists have studied monogamy and polygyny, the two most commonly …. However, many of these same benefits should favor polygamy over monogamy more generally, including polyandrous and cenogamous … monogamy is most common, polygyny frequent, polyandry rare, and cenogamy virtually non-existent. Within-wives conflicts over …