M Carter

Biographic Data

ID9204
NAMEM Carter
GIVEN NAMESM
FAMILY NAMECarter
SIGNATURECARTER M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
ORCID0000-0003-0960-9181
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS48
TOTAL CITATIONS614
AUTHOR COUNT48
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX15

  • Impact of the LCBO strike on Ontario emergency department visits with an alcohol-related chief complaint

    Open AccessMelissa Wan, Janice Mok et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2026

    Background: Alcohol is a leading preventable cause of death and disability in Canada. Alcohol-related emergency department (ED) visits place a substantial burden on the health system, with evidence that greater alcohol availability contributes to higher utilization and related harms. The July 2024 Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) strike provided a natural experiment to evaluate the impact of reduced alcohol availability on healthcare utiliz…

  • Insuring those who bear the risk

    Open AccessJulián Arteaga, M Carter et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2026References: 38

  • Get in the zone

    Open AccessElla Kirchner, Elinor Benami et al.ARTICLEJournal of Development Economics2025References: 1

  • Bundling Genetic and Financial Technologies for More Resilient and Productive Small-Scale Farmers in Africa

    Open AccessStephen R Boucher, M Carter et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal2024Cited by: 2References: 32

    Using a multi-year, spatially diversified randomised controlled trial spanning two African countries, this paper explores whether a complementary bundle of genetic and financial technologies can boost the resilience and productivity of small-scale farmers. The analysis shows that both moderate droughts and more severe yield losses undermine the resilience of control-group households, and that these shocks have long-lasting effects as farmers inve…

  • Filling a niche? The maize productivity impacts of adaptive breeding by a local seed company in Kenya

    Open AccessSamuel S Bird, M Carter et al.ARTICLEJournal of Development Economics2022Cited by: 1References: 3

    This paper studies whether the absence of locally adapted seed varieties constrains the productivity and incomes of farm households residing in small, agro-ecological niches. We empirically examine the disruption of the maize seed market in Western Kenya that took place when public sector foundation breeding and social impact investment capital came together and allowed a local seed company to expand and target a niche area with adaptively-bred m…

  • Does the design matter? Comparing satellite-based indices for insuring pastoralists against drought

    Open AccessNele Jensen, Quentin Stoeffler et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2019Cited by: 4References: 5

  • Finding our balance? Revisiting the randomization revolution in development economics ten years further on

    Open AccessChristopher B Barrett, M CarterARTICLEWorld Development2019Cited by: 3References: 3

  • Violence and the formation of hopelessness

    Open AccessAndrés Moya, M CarterARTICLEWorld Development2018Cited by: 5References: 10

  • Heterogeneous impact dynamics of a rural business development program in Nicaragua

    Open AccessM Carter, Michael R Carter et al.ARTICLEJournal of Development Economics2018Cited by: 3References: 3

  • Where and how index insurance can boost the adoption of improved agricultural technologies

    Open AccessM Carter, Michael R Carter et al.ARTICLEJournal of Development Economics2015Cited by: 18References: 3

  • The Economics of Poverty Traps and Persistent Poverty

    Christopher B Barrett, M Carter et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2013

    The moral and economic imperatives to intervene in poverty traps motivate the identification of poverty traps and their structural causes so as to inform the design of appropriate policy responses. However, empirical identification remains challenging because of poverty traps’ complexity. After reviewing mechanisms that can generate poverty traps, we focus on one – multiple financial market failures – emphasising its heretofore underappreciated t…

  • Poverty and land redistribution

    Open AccessMalcolm Keswell, M Carter et al.ARTICLEJournal of Development Economics2013Cited by: 27References: 6

    Despite a theoretical literature that promises that land transfers will have large impacts on the well-being of poor households, well-identified empirical evidence on the efficacy of land redistribution is scarce. In an effort to fill this gap, this paper examines South Africa's Land Redistribution for Agricultural Development (LRAD) program. We exploit features of LRAD program implementation to extract exogenous variation in whether, and for how…

  • Consumption versus asset smoothing

    Open AccessM Carter, Michael R Carter et al.ARTICLEJournal of Development Economics2012Cited by: 33References: 4

  • Trustworthiness and Social Capital in South Africa

    M Carter, Michael R Carter et al.ARTICLEEconomic Development and Cultural…2011Cited by: 4References: 32

    This article measures trustworthiness using an experimental protocol designed to distinguish this social norm from purely altruistic preferences. Experimental participants were drawn from South African households surveyed by a longitudinal living standards study. This procedure not only permits analysis of the impact of experimentally measured social norms on real-world outcomes but also provides a rich array of data that can be used to control f…

  • The Power and Pitfalls of Experiments in Development Economics

    Open AccessChristopher B Barrett, M Carter et al.ARTICLEApplied Economic Perspectives and…2010

    Impact evaluation based on randomized controlled trials (RCTs) offers a powerful tool that has fundamentally reshaped development economics by offering novel solutions to long‐standing problems of weak causal identification. Nonetheless, RCTs suffer important and underappreciated pitfalls, some of which are intrinsic to the method when applied to economic problems, others that are the result of methodological boosterism. Among the pitfalls are et…

  • Investir pour innover en monde rural

    M Carter, Michael R CarterARTICLEAfrique contemporaine2009Cited by: 1References: 9

    La théorie de l’innovation induite, appliquée ici au domaine agricole, suggère qu’un sentier durable de modernisation technologique existe même dans des économies caractérisées par une forte croissance démographique et une raréfaction des terres arables. Des études récentes semblent indiquer que les marchés, et les signaux qu’ils donnent, ne suffisent cependant pas à eux seuls pour permettre la croissance agricole. Cet article s’intéresse aux mar…

  • Asset Thresholds and Social Protection

    Open AccessM Carter, Michael R Carter et al.ARTICLEIDS Bulletin2007

  • Poverty Traps and Natural Disasters in Ethiopia and Honduras

    Open AccessM Carter, P D Little et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2007Cited by: 83References: 5

  • Asset Thresholds and Social Protection

    Open AccessM Carter, Michael R Carter et al.ARTICLEIDS Bulletin2007Cited by: 1References: 10

    The dedication of this issue of the IDS Bulletin to social protection testifies to the topic’s increasing importance in development discourse and policy. Holzmann et al. (2003) describe the rise of social protection within the World Bank. They trace its rise at least in part to the

  • Understanding and reducing persistent poverty in Africa

    Christopher B Barrett, M Carter et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2006

    This paper introduces a special issue exploring persistent poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. As a set, these papers break new ground in exploring the dynamics of structural poverty, integrating qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis and adopting an asset-based approach to the study of changes in well-being, especially in response to a wide range of different (climatic, health, political, and other) shocks. In this introductory essay, we fr…

  • Exploring poverty traps and social exclusion in South Africa using qualitative and quantitative data

    Michelle Adato, M Carter et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2006

    Recent theoretical work hypothesises that a polarised society like South Africa will suffer a legacy of ineffective social capital and blocked pathways of upward mobility that leaves large numbers of people trapped in poverty. To explore these ideas, this paper employs a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods. Novel econometric analysis of asset dynamics over the 1993–98 period identifies a dynamic asset poverty threshold that signals that l…

  • The economics of poverty traps and persistent poverty

    M Carter, Michael R Carter et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2006

    Longitudinal data on household living standards open the way to a deeper analysis of the nature and extent of poverty. While a number of studies have exploited this type of data to distinguish transitory from more chronic forms of income or expenditure poverty, this paper develops an asset-based approach to poverty analysis that makes it possible to distinguish deep-rooted, persistent structural poverty from poverty that passes naturally with tim…

  • Social capital and the reproduction of economic inequality in polarized societies

    Open AccessTewodaj Mogues, M CarterARTICLEThe Journal of Economic Inequality2005Cited by: 1References: 15

  • The Impact of “Market-Friendly” Reforms on Credit and Land Markets in Honduras and Nicaragua

    Open AccessStephen R Boucher, Bradford L Barham et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2004Cited by: 15References: 15

  • Getting Institutions “Right” for Whom? Credit Constraints and the Impact of Property Rights on the Quantity and Composition of Investment

    Open AccessM Carter, Michael R Carter et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Agricultural…2003

    Property rights reform is typically hypothesized to boost investment through investment demand and credit supply effects. Yet when the credit supply effect is muted, property rights reform would be expected to induce liquidity‐constrained farms to reduce investment in movable capital even as they increase investment in attached capital. This expectation is corroborated by econometric analysis of panel data from Paraguay. While all farmers experie…