Erica Marie Field (born February 12, 1974) is an economist who currently works as Professor of Economics and Global Health at Duke University. Her research interests include development economics, labour economics, and health economics. In 2010, her research was awarded the Elaine Bennett Research Prize. Biography Erica Field earned a BA in Economics and Latin American Studies from Vassar College in 1996. As a Fulbright scholar, she then studied the impact of government programs in Peru on that country's labor force, before returning to school at Princeton University, where she completed her PhD in 2003 with a thesis on the impact of land-title reform on labor supply in Peru. After her graduation and a term as post-doctoral fellow as RWJ Scholar in Health Policy at Harvard University, she remained as assistant professor of economics (2005–09), being later promoted to John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Social Sciences (2010–11). In 2011, Field moved to Duke University as Associate Professor of Economics and Global Health before becoming a full professor in 2015. In parallel, she has held visiting appointments at the Center for Health and Wellbeing and at the Institute for Advanced Study. She also maintains affiliations as a fellow with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and the Bureau for Research in Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) as well as with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). Moreover, she performs editorial duties for the academic journals Economic Development and Cultural Change, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Journal of Development Economics. Finally, she has worked as a consultant for USAID, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and the Millennium Challenge Corporation, among others. Research Erica Field's research focuses on development economics, labour economics, economic demography, and health. Her research has been acknowledged through several awards, including the Albert Rees Prize for Outstanding PhD Dissertation in Labor Economics, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship and the Elaine Bennett Research Prize. A substantial body of Field's research concerns the effects of property rights. In Peru, she finds the issuance of property titles to urban squatters to increase the rate of housing renovation by over two-thirds, with most of the investment being financed through savings. Similarly, she finds stronger property rights in Peru to also induce strong increases in working hours, shifts from home-based work to external work, and substitution of child labour by adult labour. Moreover, in work with Maximo Torero, she