Working Papers
Balboni, C., Bryan, G., Morten, M., & Siddiqi, B. (2020). Transportation, Gentrification, and Urban Mobility: The Inequality Effects of Place-Based Policies.
Chandrasekhar, A., Morten, M., & Peter, A. (2020). Network-Based Hiring: Local Benefits; Global Costs.
Revising
Meghir, C., Mobarak, M., Mommaerts, C., & Morten, M. (2020). Migration and Informal Insurance.
Conditionally accepted: the Review of Economic Studies
Allen, T., Dobbin, C. & Morten, M. (2019). Border Walls. Nontechnical summary
Media coverage: The Economist; The Washington Post; CNN; NPR's The Indicator (podcast); VoxEU; Quartz; Bloomberg; Politico ; SIEPR; Development Impact
Revision requested: the Review of Economic Studies
Morten, M. & Oliveira, J. (2018). The Effects of Roads on Trade and Migration: Evidence from a Planned Capital City. NBER Working Paper 22158
Revision requested: AEJ:Applied
Publications
Bryan, G. & Morten, M. (2019). The Aggregate Productivity Effects of Internal Migration: Evidence from Indonesia.
Journal of Political Economy, 127(5), 2229-2268.
Morten, M. (2019). Temporary Migration and Endogenous Risk Sharing in Village India.
Journal of Political Economy, 127(1), 1-46. (Lead Article)
Karlan, D., Morten, M. & Zinman, J. (2016). A Personal Touch in Text Messaging can Improve Microloan Repayment.
Behavioral Science and Policy, 1(2), 25-31.
Bollard, A., McKenzie, D., Morten, & M., Rapoport, H. (2011). Remittances and the Brain Drain Revisited: The Microdata Show That More Educated Migrants Remit More.
World Bank Economic Review, 25(1), 132-156.
Bollard, A., McKenzie, D., & Morten, M. (2010). The Remitting Patterns of African Migrants in the OECD.
Journal of African Economics, 19(5), 605-634.
Presentations
Internal Migration in Africa (2015). CSAE Plenary Session.
Fieldwork Underway
Bryan, G., Milusheva, S., Morten, M., Siddiqi, B, & Zhang, S. The Importance of Place: Spatially Conditional Transfers in Dar es Salaam
Status: Piloting (February 2020)
Chandrasekhar, A., Morten, M., & Peter, A. Experimental Evidence on Contracting Frictions
Status: Fieldwork underway (February 2020 )
