Erica Field, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor

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, National Institutes of Health, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and IZA/DFID Growth and Labour Markets in Low Income Countries, 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, female labor market participation in Pakistan, 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.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	319 Social Sciences, Box 90097, Durham, NC 27708-0097
Email Address:
Web Pages:	https://sites.duke.edu/ericafield/ https://sites.duke.edu/ericafield/curriculum-vitae/

Teaching (Fall 2025):

• ECON 446.01, ECONOMICS OF GLOBAL HEALTH Synopsis

  Gross Hall 105, MW 11:45 AM-01:00 PM

  (also cross-listed as GLHLTH 335.01, HLTHPOL 335.01)

• ECON 646.01, ECONOMICS OF GLOBAL HEALTH Synopsis

  Gross Hall 105, MW 11:45 AM-01:00 PM

• ECON 881.01, TOPICS IN APPLIED MICROECON Synopsis

  Old Chem 001, F 08:30 AM-11:00 AM

• ECON 954.01, APPLIED MICRO DEVEL RESEARCH Synopsis

  Social Sciences 111, F 12:00 PM-02:00 PM

Education:

Ph.D.

Princeton University

2003

Specialties:

Development Economics
Health Economics
Microeconomics

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

Curriculum Vitae  Bio

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Agüero, JM; Field, E; Hurtado, IR; Romero, J, COVID-19, Job Loss, and Intimate Partner Violence in Peru, Economic Development and Cultural Change, vol. 73 no. 1 (October, 2024), pp. 1-35 [doi]  [abs]
2. Agte, P; Bernhardt, A; Field, E; Pande, R; Rigol, N, Investing in the Next Generation: The Long-Run Impacts of a Liquidity Shock, American Economic Review, vol. 114 no. 9 (September, 2024), pp. 2792-2824 [doi]  [abs]
3. Maffioli, EM; Zaw, NT; Field, E, A comparison between different models of delivering maternal cash transfers in Myanmar, Health Policy and Planning, vol. 39 no. 7 (August, 2024), pp. 674-682 [doi]  [abs]
4. 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]
5. 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]