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THE WIDOWHOOD EFFECT IN POLYGAMOUS MARRIAGES : EVIDENCE FROM THE UTAH POPULATION DATABASE

In this study we use data from the Utah Population Database to examine the relationship between marital status and mortality in polygamous marriages in 19th century Utah. With data on 109,178 men and 97,025 women we particularly focus on whether the widowhood effect varies between monogamous and polygamous marriages, and in polygamous marriages how the number of wife deaths affects male mortality, and how the death of a sister wife affects female mortality relative to the death of a husband. We find that for women the death of a husband in polygamous marriages increases mortality to a greater extent than it does for women in monogamous marriages, while for men we find that the death of one wife in a polygamous marriage increases mortality to a lesser extent than it does for men in monogamous marriages. For women we find that the death of a husband increases mortality to a greater extent than does the death of a sister wife, but the difference is not statistically significant.