Browsing by Author "Field, Erica Marie"

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    • Building Social Capital Through Microfinance 

      Feigenberg, Benjamin; Field, Erica Marie; Pande, Rohini (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)
      A number of development assistance programs promote community interaction as a means of building social capital. Yet, despite strong theoretical underpinnings, the role of repeat interactions in sustaining cooperation has ...

    • Early Marriage, Age of Menarche, and Female Schooling Attainment in Bangladesh 

      Field, Erica; Ambrus, Attila (University of Chicago Press, 2008)
      Using data from rural Bangladesh, we explore the hypothesis that women attain less schooling as a result of social and financial pressure to marry young. We isolate the causal effect of marriage timing using age of menarche ...

    • Globalization, Crop Choice and Property Rights in Rural Peru, 1994-2004 

      Field, Alfred J.; Field, Erica Marie (United Nations University, 2002)
      This paper describes the results of initial work analyzing a panel of rural households in Peru between 1994 and 2004 to determine household responses to changes in relative prices of traditional versus export-oriented ...

    • Household Bargaining and Excess Fertility: An Experimental Study in Zambia 

      Ashraf, Nava; Field, Erica; Lee, Jean (American Economic Association, 2014)
      We posit that household decision-making over fertility is characterized by moral hazard due to the fact that most contraception can only be perfectly observed by the woman. Using an experiment in Zambia that varied whether ...

    • Property Rights and Investment in Urban Slums 

      Field, Erica Marie (MIT Press, 2005)
      This paper examines the effect of changes in tenure security on residential investment in urban squatter neighborhoods. To address the endogeneity of property rights, I make use of variation in ownership status induced by ...