PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES:
Porter, M., Nuhu, A.S., Nakasone, E., and Maredia, M. 2025. "Trust, Risk, and Institutions: Experimental Evidence from a Community of Firms in Kenya." Journal of Economic Psychology. 110: 102834.
Kramer, B., Porter, M., and Wassie, S.B. 2025. "Basis Risk, Social Comparison, Perceptions of Fairness and Demand for Insurance: A Field Experiment in Ethiopia." Journal of Risk and Insurance. http://doi.org/10.1111/jori.70015
Maredia, M., Nakasone, E., Porter, M., Nordhagen, S., Caputo, V., Djimeu, E.W., Jones, A., Mbuya, M.N.N., Ortega, D., Toure, D., and Tschirley, D. 2024. "Using novel multi-method evaluation approaches to understand complex food system interventions: Insights from a supply chain intervention intended to improve nutrition." Current Developments in Nutrition 8(6): 103776.
Nakasone, E., Porter, M., Jones, A., Maredia, M., and Tschirley, D. 2024. "A mixed methods assessment of technical and financial assistance to small- and medium-sized enterprises in Kenya's food sector." Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 46(2): 435-455.
Maredia, M., Porter, M., Caputo, V., Nakasone, E., and Ortega, D. 2024. "Does increasing the availability of a nutritious food produced by a small- and medium-sized enterprise increase its consumption? Evidence from a field experiment in Kenya." Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 46(2): 414-434.
Caputo, V., Kaminski, D., and Porter, M. 2023. "Dairy workers’ preferences for compensatory benefits: A field experiment with U.S. immigrants and students." Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association 2(2): 198–214.
Farris, J., Porter, M., Jin, S., and Maredia, M. 2023. “Growing Pains: Season-Specific In-Utero Rainfall Shocks Impact Child Growth in Rural Rwanda.” Economic Development and Cultural Change 71(2): 793-818.
Kassas, B., Palma, M., and Porter, M. 2022. "Happy to Take Some Risk: Estimating the Effect of Induced Emotions on Risk Preferences." Journal of Economic Psychology 91.
Wang, Y., Porter, M. and Jin, S. 2020. “The impact of health insurance on healthcare service use and costs: evidence from rural China.” China Agricultural Economic Review 13(2):418-435.
Porter, M. 2017. "Spousal Bargaining Over Care for Elderly Parents in China: Imbalances in Sex Ratios Influence the Allocation of Support" Journal of Development Studies 53(4): 514-529. DOI:10.1080/00220388.2016.1156093.
Porter, M., and A. Adams. 2016. "For Love or Reward? Characterising Preferences for Giving to Parents in an Experimental Setting" Economic Journal 126(598): 2424-2445. DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12248
Technical Appendix available here. For media coverage, see article in The Observer (UK) Also see summary here.
Porter, M. 2016. "Effects of Microcredit and Other Loans on Female Empowerment in Bangladesh: The Borrower’s Gender Influences Intra-Household Resource Allocation" Agricultural Economics 47: 235-245. DOI: 10.1111/agec.12225
Porter, M. 2016. "How Do Sex Ratios in China Influence Marriage Decisions and Intra-Household Resource Allocation?" Review of Economics of the Household, 14(2): 337-371.
DOI 10.1007/s11150-014-9262-9
ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS:
Porter, M. 2010. “Health, Longevity, and the Role of the Family in China.” Journal of Population Ageing 3-4: 103-109.
Porter, M. 2010. “Marriage and The Elderly in China” in Aging Asia: The Economic and Social Implications of Rapid Demographic Change in China, Japan, and Korea, edited by K. Eggleston and S. Tuljapurkar, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
King, E. M., S. Klasen, and M. Porter. 2009. “Women and Development.” in Global Crises, Global Solutions, edited by B. Lomborg, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.