Maria Floro
Biographic Data
| ID | 270440 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Floro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Floro |
| SIGNATURE | FLORO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4577-3846 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 129 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Unpaid Care to Older Persons and Tradeoffs in Time Use: The Experience of Working-Age Women and Men in the US
When Caregiving Becomes Burden: The Gap Between Preferred Amount of Care Time and Actual Amount of Care Time
A Woman Who Did Not Wait: Louise Odencrantz and Her Fight for the Common Good
Gender Wage Gap, Gender Norms, and Long-Term Care: A Theoretical Framework
Population aging in developed and developing economies has led to increasing number of older persons in need of care, posing a challenge to the social arrangements of care and creating important aggregate economic implications. This article proposes a simple theoretical framework to evaluate the interplay of gender norms and the gender wage gap, as well as specific characteristics of the paid care market such as occupational segregation and marke…
The Effects of Domestic and International Remittances on Food Insecurity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Despite food insecurity being a key policy priority for aid organisations and governments around the world, the effects of remittances on food insecurity in low- and middle-income countries are largely unknown. Using data from the 2014–15 waves of the Gallup World Poll, and the first global experiential measure of food insecurity, we examine the impacts of receiving domestic, international, and both (domestic and international) remittances on ind…
Demographic, health, and economic transitions and the future care burden
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused millions of infections and deaths worldwide, forced schools to suspend classes, workers to work from home, many to lose their livelihoods, and countless businesses to close. Throughout this crisis, families have had to protect, comfort and care for their children, their elderly and other members. While the pandemic has greatly intensified family care responsibilities for families, unpaid care work has been a prima…
Parents’ labour force participation and children’s involvement in work activities: Evidence from Thailand
This study provides a better understanding of children’s engagement in economic work and housework by examining its relationship with parents’ labour force participation. It also explores how parents’ employment type is associated with children’s involvement in work activities. Using Thailand’s Labour Force and Time Use Surveys, our multivariate probit regression results show that girls actively participate in economic activities when their mothe…
Food insecurity, gender, and international migration in low- and middle-income countries
Understanding asset holdings of Vietnamese households
This paper examines household management in terms of saving and spending of financial and real (primarily gold and jewelry) asset holdings among Vietnamese households and the extent to which these are used when a major health shock or a family event-expenditure shock occurs. Using 2002–06 Vietnam Household Living Standard Surveys (VHLSS) pooled data, this study demonstrates that the range of assets households rely upon for precautionary saving is…
The Remaking of Social Contracts: Feminists in a Fierce New World
Gender, Development, and Globalization: Economics as if All People Mattered
Gender, Development, and Globalization is the leading primer on global feminist economics and development. Lourdes Benería, a pioneer in the field of feminist economics, is joined in this second edition by Gunseli Berik and Maria Floro to update the text to reflect the major theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions and global developments in the last decade. Its interdisciplinary investigation remains accessible to a broad audienc…
Microfinanzas en la economía ecuatoriana: Una Alternativa Hacia El Desarrollo
Este es un estudio oportuno e interesante sobre las instituciones microfinancieras en el \nEcuador. Dada la continua expansión del sector microfinanciero, especialmente después de la grave crisis económica que golpeó al país en 1999, el estudio ofrece un análisis del rol que este sector desempeña en la reducción de la pobreza, el crecimiento económico y el desarrollo del sector financiero. \nTambién plantea preguntas que podrían convertirse en te…
Assessing the Effect of Microfinance on Vulnerability and Poverty among Low Income Households
We empirically investigate whether participation in the Indian Self Help Group (SHG) microfinance programme has helped reduced poverty and household vulnerability using cross-sectional SHG rural household survey data. The potential selection bias is eliminated by propensity score matching to estimate the average treatment on treated effect using nearest neighbour matching and a local linear regression algorithm. We find that vulnerability in SHG …
Food Security, Gender, and Occupational Choice among Urban Low-Income Households
Guest Editors' Note
Gender and Work in South Africa: What Can Time-Use Data Reveal
Using data from the 2000 South Africa National Time Use Survey, this study argues that a gender-aware understanding of men's and women's time use can help complement information on productive work missed in labor force surveys. Further, time-use information on job searches and household work provides insights into the interconnectedness of gender inequalities in the labor market and the household. An analysis of the time-use patterns of 10,465 wo…
Gender, Work Intensity, and Well-Being of Thai Home-Based Workers
The contribution explores the time-use dimensions of the individual well-being of home-based workers in Thailand's urban squatter communities to demonstrate how time-use patterns provide information regarding individual experiences in performing economic activities that affect quality of life. The study focuses on two groups of home-based workers: the self-employed, and those who work for a contractor. Using an individual-level well-being index t…
Guest Editors' Note
Introduction: Globalization and Gender
(2000). Introduction: Globalization and Gender. Feminist Economics: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. vii-xviii
Financial Crisis, Gender, and Power: An Analytical Framework
Women's well-being, poverty, and work intensity
High work intensity, as a result of doing two tasks at a time, is an important dimension of well-being. For many poor, working women, it represents a necessary means of coping when real wages fall, prices rise and basic services are cut. And yet existing standard-of-living measurements and household economic models fail to address this important dimension of time use. This paper argues that the lack of consideration of the length and intensificat…
Economic restructuring, gender and the allocation of time
Economic restructuring, gender and the allocation of time
Women's well-being, poverty, and work intensity
High work intensity, as a result of doing two tasks at a time, is an important dimension of well-being. For many poor, working women, it represents a necessary means of coping when real wages fall, prices rise and basic services are cut. And yet existing standard-of-living measurements and household economic models fail to address this important dimension of time use. This paper argues that the lack of consideration of the length and intensificat…
Food Security, Gender, and Occupational Choice among Urban Low-Income Households
Financial Crisis, Gender, and Power: An Analytical Framework
Gender, Work Intensity, and Well-Being of Thai Home-Based Workers
The contribution explores the time-use dimensions of the individual well-being of home-based workers in Thailand's urban squatter communities to demonstrate how time-use patterns provide information regarding individual experiences in performing economic activities that affect quality of life. The study focuses on two groups of home-based workers: the self-employed, and those who work for a contractor. Using an individual-level well-being index t…
Demographic, health, and economic transitions and the future care burden
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused millions of infections and deaths worldwide, forced schools to suspend classes, workers to work from home, many to lose their livelihoods, and countless businesses to close. Throughout this crisis, families have had to protect, comfort and care for their children, their elderly and other members. While the pandemic has greatly intensified family care responsibilities for families, unpaid care work has been a prima…
Gender and Work in South Africa: What Can Time-Use Data Reveal
Using data from the 2000 South Africa National Time Use Survey, this study argues that a gender-aware understanding of men's and women's time use can help complement information on productive work missed in labor force surveys. Further, time-use information on job searches and household work provides insights into the interconnectedness of gender inequalities in the labor market and the household. An analysis of the time-use patterns of 10,465 wo…
Introduction: Globalization and Gender
(2000). Introduction: Globalization and Gender. Feminist Economics: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. vii-xviii
Food insecurity, gender, and international migration in low- and middle-income countries
Gender, Development, and Globalization: Economics as if All People Mattered
Gender, Development, and Globalization is the leading primer on global feminist economics and development. Lourdes Benería, a pioneer in the field of feminist economics, is joined in this second edition by Gunseli Berik and Maria Floro to update the text to reflect the major theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions and global developments in the last decade. Its interdisciplinary investigation remains accessible to a broad audienc…
Gender Wage Gap, Gender Norms, and Long-Term Care: A Theoretical Framework
Population aging in developed and developing economies has led to increasing number of older persons in need of care, posing a challenge to the social arrangements of care and creating important aggregate economic implications. This article proposes a simple theoretical framework to evaluate the interplay of gender norms and the gender wage gap, as well as specific characteristics of the paid care market such as occupational segregation and marke…
When Caregiving Becomes Burden: The Gap Between Preferred Amount of Care Time and Actual Amount of Care Time
Understanding asset holdings of Vietnamese households
This paper examines household management in terms of saving and spending of financial and real (primarily gold and jewelry) asset holdings among Vietnamese households and the extent to which these are used when a major health shock or a family event-expenditure shock occurs. Using 2002–06 Vietnam Household Living Standard Surveys (VHLSS) pooled data, this study demonstrates that the range of assets households rely upon for precautionary saving is…
The Remaking of Social Contracts: Feminists in a Fierce New World
Women's well-being, poverty, and work intensity
High work intensity, as a result of doing two tasks at a time, is an important dimension of well-being. For many poor, working women, it represents a necessary means of coping when real wages fall, prices rise and basic services are cut. And yet existing standard-of-living measurements and household economic models fail to address this important dimension of time use. This paper argues that the lack of consideration of the length and intensificat…
Economic restructuring, gender and the allocation of time
Introduction: Globalization and Gender
(2000). Introduction: Globalization and Gender. Feminist Economics: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. vii-xviii
Financial Crisis, Gender, and Power: An Analytical Framework
Gender, Work Intensity, and Well-Being of Thai Home-Based Workers
The contribution explores the time-use dimensions of the individual well-being of home-based workers in Thailand's urban squatter communities to demonstrate how time-use patterns provide information regarding individual experiences in performing economic activities that affect quality of life. The study focuses on two groups of home-based workers: the self-employed, and those who work for a contractor. Using an individual-level well-being index t…
Guest Editors' Note
Guest Editors' Note
Gender and Work in South Africa: What Can Time-Use Data Reveal
Using data from the 2000 South Africa National Time Use Survey, this study argues that a gender-aware understanding of men's and women's time use can help complement information on productive work missed in labor force surveys. Further, time-use information on job searches and household work provides insights into the interconnectedness of gender inequalities in the labor market and the household. An analysis of the time-use patterns of 10,465 wo…
Assessing the Effect of Microfinance on Vulnerability and Poverty among Low Income Households
We empirically investigate whether participation in the Indian Self Help Group (SHG) microfinance programme has helped reduced poverty and household vulnerability using cross-sectional SHG rural household survey data. The potential selection bias is eliminated by propensity score matching to estimate the average treatment on treated effect using nearest neighbour matching and a local linear regression algorithm. We find that vulnerability in SHG …
Food Security, Gender, and Occupational Choice among Urban Low-Income Households
Microfinanzas en la economía ecuatoriana: Una Alternativa Hacia El Desarrollo
Este es un estudio oportuno e interesante sobre las instituciones microfinancieras en el \nEcuador. Dada la continua expansión del sector microfinanciero, especialmente después de la grave crisis económica que golpeó al país en 1999, el estudio ofrece un análisis del rol que este sector desempeña en la reducción de la pobreza, el crecimiento económico y el desarrollo del sector financiero. \nTambién plantea preguntas que podrían convertirse en te…
Gender, Development, and Globalization: Economics as if All People Mattered
Gender, Development, and Globalization is the leading primer on global feminist economics and development. Lourdes Benería, a pioneer in the field of feminist economics, is joined in this second edition by Gunseli Berik and Maria Floro to update the text to reflect the major theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions and global developments in the last decade. Its interdisciplinary investigation remains accessible to a broad audienc…
The Remaking of Social Contracts: Feminists in a Fierce New World
Understanding asset holdings of Vietnamese households
This paper examines household management in terms of saving and spending of financial and real (primarily gold and jewelry) asset holdings among Vietnamese households and the extent to which these are used when a major health shock or a family event-expenditure shock occurs. Using 2002–06 Vietnam Household Living Standard Surveys (VHLSS) pooled data, this study demonstrates that the range of assets households rely upon for precautionary saving is…
Parents’ labour force participation and children’s involvement in work activities: Evidence from Thailand
This study provides a better understanding of children’s engagement in economic work and housework by examining its relationship with parents’ labour force participation. It also explores how parents’ employment type is associated with children’s involvement in work activities. Using Thailand’s Labour Force and Time Use Surveys, our multivariate probit regression results show that girls actively participate in economic activities when their mothe…
Food insecurity, gender, and international migration in low- and middle-income countries
The Effects of Domestic and International Remittances on Food Insecurity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Despite food insecurity being a key policy priority for aid organisations and governments around the world, the effects of remittances on food insecurity in low- and middle-income countries are largely unknown. Using data from the 2014–15 waves of the Gallup World Poll, and the first global experiential measure of food insecurity, we examine the impacts of receiving domestic, international, and both (domestic and international) remittances on ind…
Demographic, health, and economic transitions and the future care burden
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused millions of infections and deaths worldwide, forced schools to suspend classes, workers to work from home, many to lose their livelihoods, and countless businesses to close. Throughout this crisis, families have had to protect, comfort and care for their children, their elderly and other members. While the pandemic has greatly intensified family care responsibilities for families, unpaid care work has been a prima…
A Woman Who Did Not Wait: Louise Odencrantz and Her Fight for the Common Good
Gender Wage Gap, Gender Norms, and Long-Term Care: A Theoretical Framework
Population aging in developed and developing economies has led to increasing number of older persons in need of care, posing a challenge to the social arrangements of care and creating important aggregate economic implications. This article proposes a simple theoretical framework to evaluate the interplay of gender norms and the gender wage gap, as well as specific characteristics of the paid care market such as occupational segregation and marke…
When Caregiving Becomes Burden: The Gap Between Preferred Amount of Care Time and Actual Amount of Care Time
Unpaid Care to Older Persons and Tradeoffs in Time Use: The Experience of Working-Age Women and Men in the US
Economics (17 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (11 works) · Demographic economics (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Work (physics (9 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (6 works) · Geography (6 works)