Erica Field is a James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Economics at Duke University specializing in the fields of Development Economics, Health Economics and Economic Demography. She is the Director of the Duke Development Economics Lab (DevLab@Duke), a Faculty Affiliate at the of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT (J-PAL), a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a Research Affiliate of the Bureau for Research in Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), a Research Affiliate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), a Research Affiliate of the International Growth Centre (IGC), and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).