The Marginal Utility of Inequality: A Global Examination Across Ethnographic Societies

Subsistence mode will be correlated with the presence of inequality.

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Generalized additive model	Supported	p<0.001	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Social Stratification	Dependent	Castes, Classes, Serfdom And Peonage, Slavery
Subsistence Mode	Independent	Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Diet, Food Quest

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Stover, Ronald G.	1984	Monotheism predicts more gender inequality (336); subsistence also predicts gender inequality	Partially supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Evascu, Thomas L.	1975	Mode of marriage is more significantly and more strongly correlated with mode of subsistence than it is with post-marital residence (166)	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Stover, Ronald G.	1984	Gender inequality predicts monotheism (337)	Partially supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Barber, Nigel	1998	Societies where ancestral hunting and gathering is the predominant subsistence mode will be negatively associated with the frequency of homosexuality (389).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Sanderson, Stephen K.	2005	Social stratification, class stratification, subsistence type, intensity of cultivation, use of plow, patrilineality, and patrilocality/virilocality will be positively associated with gender inequality, and female contribution to agriculture will be negatively associated with gender inequality (1427, 1438).	Supported	8	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author