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Research Interests for Erica Field

Research Interests:

Professor Field’s major fields of interests are development economics, labor economics, economic demography, and health. Specifically, her research focuses on the areas of marriage and family, property rights, global health, and finance and entrepreneurship. She has received grants from the National Science Foundation, Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative, and the Harvard Sustainability Science Program, among others. She has published work in various journals, including the American Economics Journal and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. Her research regularly takes her out of the U.S., and she is currently working on projects that explore adolescent empowerment and education in Bangladesh, the effects of microfinance on women and households in South Asia and India, and the impacts of access to family planning resources on fertility and health in Zambia.

Keywords:
Development economics, Labor economics, Microeconomics, Public Health
Recent Publications
  1. Buchmann, N; Field, E; Glennerster, R; Nazneen, S; Wang, XY, A Signal to End Child Marriage: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh, American Economic Review, vol. 113 no. 10 (October, 2023), pp. 2645-2688 [doi[abs]
  2. Field, E; Pande, R; Rigol, N; Schaner, S; Stacy, E; Moore, CT, Measuring time use in rural India: Design and validation of a low-cost survey module, Journal of Development Economics, vol. 164 (September, 2023) [doi[abs]
  3. Field, E; Pande, R; Rigol, N; Schaner, S; Moore, CT, On her own account: How strengthening women's financial control impacts labor supply and gender norms, American Economic Review, vol. 111 no. 7 (July, 2021), pp. 2342-2375 [doi[abs]
  4. Ambrus, A; Field, E; Gonzalez, R, Loss in the time of cholera: Long-run impact of a disease epidemic on the urban landscape, American Economic Review, vol. 110 no. 2 (January, 2020), pp. 475-525 [doi[abs]
  5. Walther, A; Tsao, C; Pande, R; Kirschbaum, C; Field, E; Berkman, L, Do dehydroepiandrosterone, progesterone, and testosterone influence women's depression and anxiety levels? Evidence from hair-based hormonal measures of 2105 rural Indian women., Psychoneuroendocrinology, vol. 109 (November, 2019), pp. 104382 [doi[abs]

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