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Overview

David Fielding is affiliated with the University of Otago in New Zealand. Their research primarily spans social sciences, with a focus on subfields including economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, demography, safety research, and information systems.

Their research topics cover a range of areas including culture, economy, and development studies, poverty, education, and child welfare, microfinance and financial inclusion, economic growth and development, agricultural risk and resilience, gender, labor, and family dynamics, as well as viral infections and outbreaks research.

Fielding has contributed to a number of academic papers, including:

  • Measuring the diversity dividend for community-level health and women's empowerment in Africa, 2022, published in SSM - Population Health
  • Higher local Ebola incidence causes lower child vaccination rates, 2024, published in Scientific Reports
  • COVID-19 and the case for global development, 2020, published in World Development

They have also coauthored papers with frequent collaborators such as Upasak Das, Dennis Wesselbaum, Stephen Knowles, Johan A. Oldekop, and Ralitza Dimova. These partnerships reflect a multidisciplinary approach to their research, combining expertise in development studies, health, economics, and policy analysis.

David Fielding publishes regularly in venues that include:

  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • World Development
  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of African Economies
  • New Zealand Economic Papers

Their body of work contributes to the understanding of economic and social dynamics in contexts such as community health, development policy, and economic resilience. This includes examining the effects of infectious disease outbreaks on child vaccination rates and exploring the roles of diversity and empowerment in African communities.

Best Publications

  • Global Politics of Regionalism : Theory and Practice

    Mary Farrell;Louise Fawcett;Andrew Hurrell;René Foqué

  • COVID-19 and the case for global development

    Johan A. Oldekop;Rory Horner;David Hulme;Roshan Adhikari

  • Exchange rate regimes, inflation and output volatility in developing countries

    Michael Bleaney;David Fielding

  • Modelling Political Instability and Economic Performance: Israeli Investment during the Intifada

    David Fielding

  • Modelling macroeconomic shocks in the CFA Franc Zone

    David Fielding;David Fielding;Kalvinder K. Shields

  • Does trust extend beyond the village? Experimental trust and social distance in Cameroon

    Alvin Etang;David Fielding;Stephen Knowles

  • Counting the Cost of the Intifada : Consumption, Saving and Political Instability in Israel

    David Fielding

  • Money Demand in Four African Countries

    David Fielding

  • INFORMATION, INSTITUTIONS, AND BANKING SECTOR DEVELOPMENT IN WEST AFRICA

    Panicos O. Demetriades;David Fielding

  • Relative Price Variability and Inflation in Europe

    David Fielding;Paul Mizen

  • Myopic loss aversion, disappointment aversion, and the equity premium puzzle

    David Fielding;Livio Stracca

  • Political Violence and Excess Liquidity in Egypt

    David Fielding;Anja Shortland

  • Aid Volatility and Donor-Recipient Characteristics in 'Difficult Partnership Countries'

    David Fielding;George Mavrotas

  • Aid and Dutch Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa

    David Fielding;Fred Gibson

  • The volatility of aid

    David Fielding;George Mavrotas

  • ‘An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth’: Political violence and counter-insurgency in Egypt

    David Fielding;Anja Shortland

  • Trust and ROSCA membership in rural Cameroon

    Alvin Etang;David Fielding;Stephen Knowles

  • Adjustment, trade policy and investment slumps: evidence from Africa

    David Fielding

  • How Does Violent Conflict Affect Investment Location Decisions? Evidence from Israel during the Intifada

    David Fielding

  • Evidence on the Functional Relationship between Relative Price Variability and Inflation with Implications for Monetary Policy

    David Fielding;Paul Mizen

  • Cows and conquistadors: a comment on the colonial origins of comparative development

    David Fielding;Sebastian Torres

  • Fiscal shocks and the real exchange rate: evidence from an outpost of textbook open-economy macroeconomics

    David Fielding

Frequent Co-Authors

Panicos O. Demetriades
Panicos O. Demetriades University of Leicester
Badi H. Baltagi
Badi H. Baltagi Syracuse University
Mark McGillivray
Mark McGillivray Deakin University
Anthony Bebbington
Anthony Bebbington Clark University
Stephanie Barrientos
Stephanie Barrientos University of Manchester
Diana Mitlin
Diana Mitlin University of Manchester
David Hulme
David Hulme University of Manchester
Robert Niven
Robert Niven University of Manchester
Akio Niimi
Akio Niimi Nagoya City University
Bart J. Currie
Bart J. Currie Charles Darwin University

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