Maria S. Floro is Professor of 福利导航s at American University in Washington DC and co-director of the Graduate Program on Gender Analysis in 福利导航s (PGAE). Her publications include books on Informal Credit Markets and the New Institutional 福利导航s, Women’s Work in the World Economy, and Gender, Development, and Globalization: 福利导航s as if All People Mattered (co-authored; forthcoming)as well as monographs and journal articles on vulnerability, informal employment, urban food security, time use and well-being, financial crises, urban poverty, households savings, credit and asset ownership. She has collaborated with researchers, women鈥檚 groups and community organizations in Thailand, Philippines, Ecuador and Bolivia in conducting fieldwork on vulnerability, gender and informal employment in urban poor communities. She is currently working on analysis of time use survey data of China, Mongolia and Thailand and serves as technical adviser to the 福利导航 and Social Costs of Violence Against Women Project.
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The Male-centric Biases of 福利导航 Models
The assumptions economists make in their models have implications not only for policymaking and choosing what data we collect, but also for the very definition of work, says Professor Maria Floro of American University.