African polygamy
Past and present
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22902205 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Fenske (0000-0001-6003-629X, University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 117 |
| Pages | 58-73 |
| Publication date | 2015-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Development Economics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0304-3878 • E-ISSN: 1872-6089 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2015.06.005 |
| OpenAlex | W1804454024 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 83 |
| References cited | 112 |
African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Marriage and Sexual Relationships
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The Risk of Polygamy and Wives' Saving Behavior
Public Perception of Polygamy in Makassar, Indonesia
Intimate partner violence, contextual factors and under-5 mortality
Unsuspicious reception of Biblical discourse in Africa and its implications for polygamy
Critical reflections on polygamy in the African Christian context
Polygamy, the Commodification of Women, and Underdevelopment
Between Polygyny and Monogamy
Polygamy in Timor-Leste
Do Traditional Institutions Constrain Female Entrepreneurship? A Field Experiment on Business Training in India
The Empire Within
Female teachers' experiences
The colonial struggle over polygamy
Undernutrition, polygynous context and family structure
The dual faces of polygyny and ageing in Ghana
Beyond Weird
Explaining inter‐ethnic marriage in Sub‐Saharan Africa
Polygamy, co-wives’ complementarities, and intrahousehold inequality
Education and polygamy
Fertility and polygyny
Polygamy and mental health among Saudi middle schoolers
Living in Polygyny
A Research Note on the Demographic Potential of Polygyny
Slave trades, kinship structures and women's political participation in Africa
Polygyny and intimate partner violence among married women
Polygyny and intimate partner violence in sub-Saharan Africa
Polygynous marriage and child health in sub-Saharan Africa
Socio-Economic and Demographic Determinants of Polygynous Marriages in India
Polyamory Is Deviant – But Not for the Reasons You May Think
The Transformation of Polygyny in Sub‐Saharan Africa
Productivity, Rank, and Returns in Polygamy
Polygyny and Fertility
Unpacking power dynamics and women's economic empowerment in polygynous households in Burkina Faso
Polygynous Neighbors, Excess Men, and Intergroup Conflict in Rural Africa
Developing the Arab Polygamy Anxiety Scale
Polygynous Family Structure and Child Undernutrition in Nigeria
The Impact of Malaria Control on Infant Mortality in Kenya
Good, Bad, and Ugly Colonial Activities
Regime Stability and the Persistence of Traditional Practices
Chatoyer’s Punch Ladle
Cognitive bugs, alternative models, and new data
The Role of Culture in Maintaining Post-Partum Sexual Abstinence of Swazi Women
First Journey by a Descriptive Review of Empirical Research on African Marital Relationships—Scientific Dissemination, Thematic Focus, and Methodology
The local socioeconomic effects of gold mining
Love, Sex, Respect, and Physical Attractiveness in Marital Satisfaction and Remarriage
Adaptation and inculturation, as tools for understanding Igbo-African marriage system
Being African, staying African
Strategic responses to disparities in spousal desired fertility
Linking Women’s Empowerment and Community Contexts To Intimate Partner Violence
Economic returns to education
Are women emancipating? Evidence from marriage, divorce and remarriage in Rural Northern Burkina Faso☆
License to educate
Only women can whisper to gods
Violent instability and modern contraception
Colonialism and female empowerment
The long-term determinants of female HIV infection in Africa
Changing local customs
Things fall apart? Missions, institutions, and interpersonal trust
Holy cows and spilled milk
Tradition and mortality
Kin-based institutions and state capacity
Childlessness and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Educational Assortative Mating in Sub-Saharan Africa
Hidden ties
Violence Against Women
The Brides of Boko Haram
Gender, ethnicity, and unequal opportunity in colonial Uganda
Transitions to Adulthood in Developing Countries
Transiciones a la Vida Adulta en Países en Desarrollo
Land is men
The Jesuit expulsion
Monogamy as a Force of Social Progress and Women’s Empowerment
Education Policy and Under-Five Survival in Uganda
The Long-Run Effects of the Scramble for Africa
Motherhood and Women's Self-Employment
Stigma in African genomics research
The causal effect of increased primary schooling on child mortality in Malawi
The Lion's Share
Educational Gender Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa
Dynamics of Union Dissolution in Sub-Saharan Africa
The legacies of slavery in and out of Africa
Education, religion, and male fertility in sub-Saharan Africa
Condemned and Condoned
Africa
Polygyny, Economy and the Role of Women
Post-1500 Population Flows and The Long-Run Determinants of Economic Growth and Inequality
School governance, teacher incentives, and pupil–teacher ratios
Persecution Perpetuated
Where Has All the Education Gone?
Religious Conversion in Colonial Africa
Peer Effects, Teacher Incentives, and the Impact of Tracking
The power of the family
Ethnic diversity, social sanctions, and public goods in Kenya
The modern impact of precolonial centralization in Africa
The Long-Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades
Education and Human Capital Externalities
How the West “Invented” Fertility Restriction
Inequality in Landownership, the Emergence of Human-Capital Promoting Institutions, and the Great Divergence
The Impact of Education on Fertility and Child Mortality
The origins of formal education in sub-Saharan Africa
Maternal education and child mortality in Zimbabwe
Explaining African Economic Performance
The Rise of Europe
Generating Skilled Self-Employment in Developing Countries
Population, Technology, and Growth
Do Traditional Institutions Constrain Female Entrepreneurship? A Field Experiment on Business Training in India
Women Empowerment and Economic Development
Law, custom, and social order
Africa
Women and slavery in Africa
Explaining Cross-National Differences in Polygyny Intensity
Polygyny, maternal HIV status and child survival
An Economic Analysis of Polygyny
Polygyny as a Risk Factor for Child Mortality among the Dogon
Causes of Polygyny
Polygyny and Christian Marriage in Africa
Understanding Long-Run African Growth
More Than 100 Million Women Are Missing
Africans
Woman's Role in Economic Development
Missing Women and the Price of Tea in China
The Consequences of Child Soldiering
Ruggedness
Slavery and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital
Good, Bad, and Ugly Colonial Activities
Development at the Border
History Matters
Culture and the Historical Process
Education and Political Socialisation of a National-Colonial Political Elite in French West Africa, 1936–47
The Impact of Changing Conditions of Service on the Recruitment of Teachers in Nigeria
Does female schooling reduce fertility? Evidence from Nigeria
Inequality does cause underdevelopment
On the Formation of Family Structures
Islam at the German Colonial Congresses
Muslim Women in the Missionary World
Consumption Smoothing, Migration, and Marriage
A Theory of Marriage
Selection on Observed and Unobserved Variables
The Profits of Power
The Rising Price of Husbands
Chiefs
Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict
Early Marriage, Age of Menarche, and Female Schooling Attainment in Bangladesh
Problems of Professional Identity Among African School Teachers
Collective Action in Diverse Sierra Leone Communities
Inequality and the Instability of Polity and Policy
Talk about School
Education for all, education for whom, education for what? Lessons from Mali
African Responses to Christian Mission Education
Assessing the Role of Faith-Inspired Primary and Secondary Schools in Africa
Medieval Monogamy
The Effect of the TseTse Fly on African Development
The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa
On the Origins of Gender Roles
Borders That Divide
Survey of African Marriage and Family Life
The Missionary Roots of Liberal Democracy
Do the More Educated Know More about Health? Evidence from Schooling and HIV Knowledge in Zimbabwe
Health and Schooling Investments in Africa
Evangelization Where It Is Not Wanted
Religion and the Formation of an Urban Educational Market
The Africans
Do Francophone and Islamic schooling communities participate differently? Disaggregating parents' political behaviour in Mali
Oil, Islam, and Women
Wives and Sisters
Marriage Type and Reproductive Decisions
Wealth in People and Self-Realization in Equatorial Africa
Africa's development in historical perspective
| Unique citing works | 83 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,19 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 73 |