Polygyny and Farm Households' Resilience to Climate Shocks
Climate change and weather shocks pose major challenges for household income security and well-being, especially for smallholder farmers’ communities. In such communities, imperfect risk insurance and labor markets may induce households to use trad...
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okr-10986-356112022-09-20T00:09:05Z Polygyny and Farm Households' Resilience to Climate Shocks Dessy, Sylvain Tiberti, Luca Tiberti, Marco Zoundi, David CLIMATE CHANGE CROP YIELD DROUGHT RESILIENCE STRATEGY CHILD MARRIAGE CLIMATE SHOCKS POLYGAMY Climate change and weather shocks pose major challenges for household income security and well-being, especially for smallholder farmers’ communities. In such communities, imperfect risk insurance and labor markets may induce households to use traditional institutions such as polygyny to harness their size and composition to their resilience strategies against these shocks. This paper tests this hypothesis by analyzing how polygyny’s interaction with droughts affects crop yields. For identification, the paper relies on the spatial variation in polygyny’s prevalence across Mali’s rural communes and the randomness of drought episodes. The findings show that polygynous communities are more resilient to drought-induced crop failure. Exploration of the mechanisms shows that polygynous communities diversify their income sources more than monogamous ones, including via child marriage—a phenomenon known to undermine women’s outcomes. As the literature links polygyny to underdevelopment, interventions to eliminate it should make formal resilience and adaptation strategies available to drought-prone communities. Failure to do so may entrench political opposition to enforcing a ban on polygyny and child marriage. 2021-05-20T14:38:08Z 2021-05-20T14:38:08Z 2021-05 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/357711620918404250/Polygyny-and-Farm-Households-Resilience-to-Climate-Shocks http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35611 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9663 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Africa Western and Central (AFW) Mali |
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CLIMATE CHANGE CROP YIELD DROUGHT RESILIENCE STRATEGY CHILD MARRIAGE CLIMATE SHOCKS POLYGAMY Dessy, Sylvain Tiberti, Luca Tiberti, Marco Zoundi, David Polygyny and Farm Households' Resilience to Climate Shocks |
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Climate change and weather shocks pose
major challenges for household income security and
well-being, especially for smallholder farmers’ communities.
In such communities, imperfect risk insurance and labor
markets may induce households to use traditional
institutions such as polygyny to harness their size and
composition to their resilience strategies against these
shocks. This paper tests this hypothesis by analyzing how
polygyny’s interaction with droughts affects crop yields.
For identification, the paper relies on the spatial
variation in polygyny’s prevalence across Mali’s rural
communes and the randomness of drought episodes. The
findings show that polygynous communities are more resilient
to drought-induced crop failure. Exploration of the
mechanisms shows that polygynous communities diversify their
income sources more than monogamous ones, including via
child marriage—a phenomenon known to undermine women’s
outcomes. As the literature links polygyny to
underdevelopment, interventions to eliminate it should make
formal resilience and adaptation strategies available to
drought-prone communities. Failure to do so may entrench
political opposition to enforcing a ban on polygyny and
child marriage. |
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Dessy, Sylvain Tiberti, Luca Tiberti, Marco Zoundi, David |
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Dessy, Sylvain Tiberti, Luca Tiberti, Marco Zoundi, David |
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Dessy, Sylvain |
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Polygyny and Farm Households' Resilience to Climate Shocks |
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Polygyny and Farm Households' Resilience to Climate Shocks |
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Polygyny and Farm Households' Resilience to Climate Shocks |
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Polygyny and Farm Households' Resilience to Climate Shocks |
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Polygyny and Farm Households' Resilience to Climate Shocks |
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polygyny and farm households' resilience to climate shocks |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2021 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/357711620918404250/Polygyny-and-Farm-Households-Resilience-to-Climate-Shocks http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35611 |
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