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 (Spring 2026):

• 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. Daher, CA; Field, E; Swanson, K; Vyborny, K, Drivers of Change: Employment Responses to the Lifting of the Saudi Female Driving Ban, American Economic Review, vol. 115 no. 9 (September, 2025), pp. 3248-3271 [doi]  [abs]
2. Field, E; Maffioli, EM, Are Behavioral Change Interventions Needed to Make Cash Transfer Programs Work for Children? Experimental Evidence from Myanmar, Economic Development and Cultural Change, vol. 73 no. 3 (April, 2025), pp. 1187-1220 [doi]  [abs]
3. 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]
4. 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]
5. 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]