People

Erica Field

Associate Professor of Economics

Office Phone: (919) 660-1857
E-mail Address: emf23@duke.edu
Location:   319 Social Sciences Building
CV: Curriculum Vitae

Teaching

Fall 2013

• ECON 881.16 TOPICS IN APPLIED MICROECON
  
• ECON 881.17 TOPICS IN APPLIED MICROECON
  

Research Summary

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.