Cheryl R. Doss
Assistant Professor of Economics
Education
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Dept. of Applied Economics, 1996
M.A., Yale University, International Relations, 1987
B.A., University of California, Riverside, Political Science, 1983
Fields
Economic Development, Consumption Economics, and Intrahousehold Resource
Allocation.
Selected Work Experience
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Consultant
African Rural Social Science Network, Winrock International Institute
for Agricultural Development, 1990 - 1991
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Consultant
Women's Project, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1989 - 1990
Country Experience
Ghana, Liberia, Phillipines, Egypt
Publications and Working Papers
Cheryl Doss, "Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Ghana: The Impact
of the Distribution of Asset
Ownership Within the Household," forthcoming in G.H. Peters and
W. von Braun (eds.), Food
Security, Diversification and Resource Management: Refocusing
the Role of Agriculture?
Dartmouth Publishing, Aldershot, UK.
_________, "Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in an Uncertain Environment,"
American Journal of
Agricultural Economics, December 1996, Vol. 78, pp. 1335-1339.
_________, "Testing Among Models of Intrahousehold Resource Allocation,"
World Development,
October 1996, Vol. 24, No. 10, pp. 1597-1609.
_________, (with Steven J. Taff) "The Influence of Wetland type and
Wetland Proximity on Residential
Property Values," Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics,
21(1):120-129, July 1996.
_________, "Do Households Fully Share Risk? Evidence from Ghana," Staff
paper P96-10, Dept. of
Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, 1996.
_________, Women’s Bargaining Power in Household Economic Decisions:
Evidence from Ghana,"
Staff Paper P96-11, Dept. of Applied Economics, University of
Minnesota, 1996.
_________, (with Benjamin Senauer) "Strengthening Agricultural and
Natural Resource Policy
Through Intrahousehold Analysis: Discussion," American Journal
of Agricultural Economics,
76(5):1226-1228, December 1994.
Williams 
Economics