Maria Porter
Biographic Data
| ID | 3605555 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Porter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Porter |
| SIGNATURE | PORTER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Trust, risk, and institutions: Experimental evidence from a community of firms in Kenya
Growing Pains: Timing of In Utero Rainfall Shocks and Child Growth in Rural Rwanda
Families that rely on rain-fed agriculture are prone to rainfall shocks. We use a unique data set of at-risk children in rural Rwanda to estimate the impact of rainfall shocks during a child’s in utero period. We find that increases in in utero rainfall during the midseason period increase child height-for-age z-scores but that increases in in utero rainfall in the harvest period lower these z-scores. In light of these period-specific effects, an…
Happy to take some risk: Estimating the effect of induced emotions on risk preferences
Spousal Bargaining Over Care for Elderly Parents in China: Imbalances in Sex Ratios Influence the Allocation of Support
Using a unique Chinese survey of parents and adult children, this paper examines how married children negotiate with their spouses for time devoted to caring for their own parents. Applying a collective bargaining framework, I show that the sex ratio at marriage shifts household bargaining in favour of the husband's parents when women are less scarce, or against his parents when women are scarcer. Such changing dynamics in the family may potentia…
For Love or Reward? Characterising Preferences for Giving to Parents in an Experimental Setting
Understanding the motivations behind intergenerational transfers is an important and active research area in economics. The existence and responsiveness of familial transfers have consequences for the design of intra and intergenerational redistributive programmes, particularly as such programmes may crowd out private transfers amongst altruistic family members. Yet, despite theoretical and empirical advances in this area, significant gaps in our…
Health, Longevity, and the Role of the Family in China
Happy to take some risk: Estimating the effect of induced emotions on risk preferences
For Love or Reward? Characterising Preferences for Giving to Parents in an Experimental Setting
Understanding the motivations behind intergenerational transfers is an important and active research area in economics. The existence and responsiveness of familial transfers have consequences for the design of intra and intergenerational redistributive programmes, particularly as such programmes may crowd out private transfers amongst altruistic family members. Yet, despite theoretical and empirical advances in this area, significant gaps in our…
Growing Pains: Timing of In Utero Rainfall Shocks and Child Growth in Rural Rwanda
Families that rely on rain-fed agriculture are prone to rainfall shocks. We use a unique data set of at-risk children in rural Rwanda to estimate the impact of rainfall shocks during a child’s in utero period. We find that increases in in utero rainfall during the midseason period increase child height-for-age z-scores but that increases in in utero rainfall in the harvest period lower these z-scores. In light of these period-specific effects, an…
Health, Longevity, and the Role of the Family in China
Health, Longevity, and the Role of the Family in China
For Love or Reward? Characterising Preferences for Giving to Parents in an Experimental Setting
Understanding the motivations behind intergenerational transfers is an important and active research area in economics. The existence and responsiveness of familial transfers have consequences for the design of intra and intergenerational redistributive programmes, particularly as such programmes may crowd out private transfers amongst altruistic family members. Yet, despite theoretical and empirical advances in this area, significant gaps in our…
Spousal Bargaining Over Care for Elderly Parents in China: Imbalances in Sex Ratios Influence the Allocation of Support
Using a unique Chinese survey of parents and adult children, this paper examines how married children negotiate with their spouses for time devoted to caring for their own parents. Applying a collective bargaining framework, I show that the sex ratio at marriage shifts household bargaining in favour of the husband's parents when women are less scarce, or against his parents when women are scarcer. Such changing dynamics in the family may potentia…
Happy to take some risk: Estimating the effect of induced emotions on risk preferences
Growing Pains: Timing of In Utero Rainfall Shocks and Child Growth in Rural Rwanda
Families that rely on rain-fed agriculture are prone to rainfall shocks. We use a unique data set of at-risk children in rural Rwanda to estimate the impact of rainfall shocks during a child’s in utero period. We find that increases in in utero rainfall during the midseason period increase child height-for-age z-scores but that increases in in utero rainfall in the harvest period lower these z-scores. In light of these period-specific effects, an…
Trust, risk, and institutions: Experimental evidence from a community of firms in Kenya
Economics (4 works) · Preference (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Affect (linguistics (2 works) · China (2 works) · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (2 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (2 works)