Bethmann, Dirk - Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaft, … - 2011
Marriage regimes exist in many guises and forms. Economists have studied monogamy and polygyny, the two most commonly … monogamy is most common, polygyny frequent, polyandry rare, and cenogamy virtually non-existent. Within-wives conflicts over … resources also provide an alternative explanation for why polygyny has historically been less common than monogamy and why the …