Publications
Bryan, G., Frye, K., Morten, M. (2025). Spatial Economics for Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics.
Morten, M. & Oliveira, J. (2024). The Effects of Roads on Trade and Migration: Evidence from a Planned Capital City.
AEJ: Applied, 16(2), 389-421
Bryan, G., Chowdhury, S., Mobarak, A.M., Morten, M., Smits, J. (2023). Encouragement and Distortionary Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers.
Journal of Public Economics, 228 (December), 105004
Meghir, C., Mobarak, M., Mommaerts, C., & Morten, M. (2022). Migration and Informal Insurance.
The Review of Economic Studies, 89(1), 452-480
Balboni, C., Bryan, G., Morten, M., & Siddiqi, B. (2021). Could Gentrification Stop the Poor from Benefiting from Urban Improvements?
American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 111, 532-537
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.
Revising
Balboni, C., Bryan, G., Morten, M., O'Connor C., & Siddiqi, B. (2025). Impacts of Infrastructure: People versus Place.
Revision requested, American Economic Review
Working Papers
Allen, T., Dobbin, C. & Morten, M. (2024). Border Walls. Nontechnical summary
Media coverage: The Economist; The Washington Post; CNN; NPR's The Indicator; VoxEU; Quartz; Bloomberg; Politico; SIEPR; Development Impact
Mare, D., Morten, M., Sanderson, L. (2024). Firm and Labor Market Effects of a Migrant Shortage.
Chandrasekhar, A., Morten, M., & Peter, A. (2020). Network-Based Hiring: Local Benefits; Global Costs.
Work in Progress
Morten, M., Magaloni, B., Cubillos, S., Wang, A. (2026). The Returns to Temporary Migration: Experimental Evidence from the H-2A Program.
Stanford Guestworker Migration Initiative — Co-PI: Beatriz Magaloni.
Morten, M., Torres, J.D., McAvoy-Bickford, B. (2025). Temporary Legal Protection: Labor Market and Migration Responses.
Bryan, G., Frye, K., Morten, M. (2025). Urbanization in the Developing World: Measurement and Decomposition.