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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (28680)	2/9/2004 8:42:26 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 793955

I can't point you to any studies right off the top of my head but countries like Great Britain where traditionally only the oldest son inherited the land were more prosperous than countries where each male child got a share, like Ireland. Even more so, probably, where great estates were entailed and couldn't be broken up. Compare and contrast to countries where an estate needs to be divided among the children of four wives! Some of whom have life estates (allowed to live there until they die). In the polygamous societies I studied in anthropology, only one was polyandrous - I think it was in Tibet. The polygynous ones all had the richest oldest men cornering the market in wives, with poorer older men marrying widows, and poor young men sneaking around with married women.