Associate Professor Michael Cameron
Associate Professor in Economics
Qualifications: BMS (Hons) PhD Waikato
Personal Website: http://sex-drugs-economics.blogspot.co.nz
About Michael
Dr Michael Cameron is an Associate Professor in Economics. He is also a Research Fellow in the National Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis (NIDEA). He was a PGDA Visiting Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University from 2015-16.
Dr Cameron gained his PhD from the University of Waikato in 2007, with a thesis titled "The Relationship between Poverty and HIV/AIDS in Rural Thailand". His current research interests include population, health and development issues (including the social impacts of alcohol outlet density, the measurement of population ageing, migration, health applications of non-market valuation and discrete choice modelling, and cost-effectiveness analysis of public health interventions), population modelling and stochastic modelling, financial literacy and economics education.
Dr Cameron received Outstanding Teaching Awards from Waikato Management School in 2009, 2013, and 2018, along with Staff Excellence Awards for Teaching from the University of Waikato in 2009 and 2013. He was nominated for a National Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award in 2014.
Follow his blog (Sex, Drugs and Economics) at http://sex-drugs-economics.blogspot.co.nz/
Papers Taught
Research Supervised
I am currently supervising a number of Ph.D. and Masters students working on: age- and ethnicity-specific internal migration flows; and projecting ethnic enclaves in Auckland City using microsimulation modelling. I also regularly supervise Summer Research Scholarships.
Recent Publications
Cameron, M., Droste, N., Miller, P., & Roskruge, M. (2020). Pre-drinking behaviour of people in the night-time economy.
Oetzel, J. G., Cameron, M. P., Simpson, M. L., Reddy, R., Nock, S., Greensill, H., . . . Hokowhitu, B. (2020). Kaumātua Mana Motuhake: peer education intervention to help Māori elders during later-stage life transitions. BMC Geriatrics, 20(1), 1-13. doi:10.1186/s12877-020-01590-z
Oetzel, J. G., Hokowhitu, B., Simpson, M., Reddy, R., Nock, S., Greensill, H., . . . Smith, L. T. (2019). Kaumātua Mana Motuhake: A study protocol for a peer education intervention to help Māori elders work through later-stage life transitions. BMC Geriatrics, 19(1), 11 pages. doi:10.1186/s12877-019-1041-2 Open Access version: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/13140
Cameron, M., & Poot, J. (2019). The estimation and interpretation of coefficients in panel gravity models of migration. Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, 12(1), 9-15. doi:10.1007/s12076-018-00220-y
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Keywords
Economic Development; Economics; Health; Population Studies; Teaching and Learning
Contact Details
Email: mcam@waikato.ac.nzRoom: MSB.2.23
Phone: +64 7 858 5082