Maria Recalde

Measurement of Intra-household Resource Control: Exploring the Validity of Experimental Measures

Kate Ambler, Kelly Jones, Maria Recalde

Report  |  2020

We study the validity of experimental methods designed to measure preferences for intra-household resource control among spouses i..

Gender Differences in Negotiation and Policy for Improvement

Maria Recalde, Lise Vesterlund

Report  |  2020

Men more than women succeed when negotiating over labor-market outcomes, and gender differences in negotiation likely contribute t..

Error-prone inference from response time: The case of intuitive generosity in public-good games

MP Recalde, A Riedl, L Vesterlund

Journal article  |  2018  |  Journal of Public Economics

Previous research on public-good games revealed greater contributions by fast decision-makers than by slow decision-makers. Interp..

Gender Differences in the Allocation of Low-Promotability Tasks: The Role of Backlash

Linda Babcock, Maria P Recalde, Lise Vesterlund

Journal article  |  2017  |  American Economic Review

This paper examines whether backlash exacerbates gender differences in time spent on low-promotability tasks. We ask whether gende..

Gender Differences in Accepting and Receiving Requests for Tasks with Low Promotability

Linda Babcock, Maria P Recalde, Lise Vesterlund, Laurie Weingart

Journal article  |  2017  |  American Economic Review

Gender differences in task allocations may sustain vertical gender segregation in labor markets. We examine the allocation of a ta..

Leadership and the voluntary provision of public goods: Field evidence from Bolivia

B Kelsey Jack, Maria P Recalde

Journal article  |  2015  |  Journal of Public Economics

We conduct a controlled field experiment in 52 communities in rural Bolivia to investigate the effect that local authorities have ..