Biography
Dr. Sheriff is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and a member of the Earth Institute's Center for Economy, Environment & Society.

He joined the Columbia faculty in 2002 and teaches Microeconomics for Policy Analysis I & II and Economics of Sustainable Development. He is interested in research topics covering environment, agriculture, productivity analysis, contracts and regulation. Recent publications include "Rational waste? Why farmers over-apply nutrients and implications for policy design" forthcoming in Review of Agricultural Economics and "Measuring Profit Efficiency with McFadden's Gauge Function" forthcoming in Economics Letters. Professor Sheriff earned his B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University (1993), and both his M.S. and Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of Maryland (2000, 2004).

Prior to Columbia, he conducted research at the World Bank (2002), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (Toulouse, France 2001), USDA Economic Research Service (2000, 2001), Inter-American Investment Corporation (1997), and Inter-American Development Bank (1994-1997).

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Last Updated: June 1, 2006