A presentation (in French) of this line of research can be found here
Rozenn Hotte and Sylvie Lambert (2023): Marriage Payments and Wife's Welfare: All you need is love, Journal of Development Economics, vol. 164, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103141 (PSE Working Paper 2020-27)
Sylvie Lambert (2022), "Intra-household resource allocation: marriage and women's strategies", Revue d'économie du développement, vol. 31, no. 2-3, pp. 9-21.
Paola Villar, 2021, "Paternal Mortality, Early Marriages and Marital Outcomes in Senegal", World Development, Volume 142, 2021, 105421, ISSN 0305-750X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105421.
Juliette Crespin-Boucaud et Rozenn Hotte, 2021, « Parental divorces and children's educational outcomes in Senegal», World Development, Elsevier, vol. 145(C). (PSE WP 2020-32)
Rozenn Hotte and Karine Marazyan, 2020, « Demand for Insurance and Within-Kin-Group Marriage: Evidence from a West-African Country », Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 146(C).
Pauline Rossi, 2019, « Strategic Choices in Polygamous Households: Theory and Evidence from Senegal », Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 86(3), pp. 1332-1370. (WP )
Marie Boltz and Isabelle Chort, 2019. « The risk of polygamy and wives' saving behavior », The World Bank Economic Review, vol. 33 (1), pages 209-230.
Sylvie Lambert, Dominique van de Walle and Paola Villar, 2018, « Marital trajectories, women's autonomy and women's wellbeing in Senegal », in Anderson, Siwan, Lori Beaman and Jean-Philippe Platteau (eds) Towards Gender Equity in Development, Oxford University Press. (Working Paper)
Sylvie Lambert and Pauline Rossi, 2016, « Sons as widowhood insurance: Evidence from Senegal », Journal of Development Economics, 113-127, doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2016.01.004. (PSE working paper 2014-05, or last version )
Luc Behaghel and Sylvie Lambert: « Polygamy and the Intergenerational Transmission of Education in Senegal »
Philippe De Vreyer, Catherine Guirkinger, Sylvie Lambert and Dominique van de Walle: « Polygamy and individual wellbeing. »