Michael Carter

About

Michael R Carter is a Distinguished Professor at the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Davis. His research focuses on development economics, poverty dynamics, rural credit and insurance markets, agricultural development, income distribution, land tenure, and land reform. His work contributes to understanding the economic challenges faced by rural communities and developing countries, with an emphasis on policies that improve economic outcomes and reduce poverty in agricultural sectors.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Computer Science
• Geography
• Economics
• Business
• Agricultural economics
• Artificial Intelligence
• Aesthetics
• Natural resource economics
• Biology

Selected publications

• Subsidies and the African Green Revolution: Direct Effects and Social Network Spillovers of Randomized Input Subsidies in Mozambique

  American Economic Journal Applied Economics · 2021 · 93 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  The Green Revolution, which bolstered agricultural yields and economic well-being in Asia and Latin America beginning in the 1960s, largely bypassed sub-Saharan Africa. We study the first randomized controlled trial of a government-implemented input subsidy program (ISP) in Africa intended to foment a Green Revolution. We find that this temporary subsidy for Mozambican maize farmers stimulates Green Revolution technology adoption and leads to increased maize yields. Effects of the subsidy persis…

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• Libertine Fashion

  Bloomsbury Publishing Plc eBooks · 2020 · 15 citations

  <JATS1:p>Libertine practices have long been associated with transgression and social deviance. This innovative book is the first to focus fully on the relationship between libertinism as a social phenomenon and as a form of fashion. Taking the reader from early modernity to the present day, Adam Geczy and Vicki Karaminas reveal how the connection between clothing and the taboo, the erotic, and the forbidden is at the heart of “libertine fashion”.</JATS1:p> <JATS1:p>Moving from the decadent court…

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• Bundling Stress Tolerant Seeds and Insurance for More Resilient and Productive Small-Scale Agriculture

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2021 · 6 citations

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• Preoperative Imaging Predictors of Postoperative C5 Palsy

  Spine · 2025-10-07 · 1 citations

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  STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective matched cohort study. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate and compare the predictive value of different preoperative imaging measurements and modalities for postoperative C5P. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND: C5 palsy (C5P) is a debilitating complication following cervical spine surgery with unpredictable but typically favorable recovery. While research has explored preoperative radiographic measurements in predicting C5P development, their findings remain inconclusive. MATERIALS AND METHOD…

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• Impact of Chronic Preoperative Gabapentinoid Exposure on Surgical and Patient-Reported Outcome Measures Following Lumbar Fusion

  Spine · 2025-03-19

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  STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective cohort. OBJECTIVE: To assess the relationship between long-term gabapentinoid use and outcomes after lumbar fusion. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: Gabapentinoids, which include gabapentin and pregabalin, are commonly prescribed for radiculopathic pain. Basic science research has indicated that gabapentinoids may be detrimental to bone health/healing and clinical works has shown that initiating gabapentinoids at the time of spine surgery may decrease postoperative opioid…

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Recent grants

• LabWrite: A National Web-Based Initiative to Use the Lab Report to Improve the Way Students Write, Visualize, and Understand Science

  NSF · $489k · 2003–2007

Frequent coauthors

• Gregory D. Schroeder

  66 shared

• Alan S. Hilibrand

  Rothman Institute

  65 shared

• José A. Canseco

  Thomas Jefferson University

  64 shared

• Alexander R. Vaccaro

  Rothman Institute

  56 shared

• Christopher K. Kepler

  Thomas Jefferson University

  56 shared

• Brian A. Karamian

  41 shared

• Barrett I. Woods

  Thomas Jefferson University

  41 shared

• Mark J. Lambrechts

  Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

  41 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Agricultural and Resource Economics

  University of California, Davis

• B.A., Economics

  University of Cape Town, South Africa

Awards & honors

• Fellow Agricultural & Applied Economics Association
• Fellow BREAD

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