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.
Research Interests
Recent Publications
Chakrapani, V., Newman, P. A., Cameron, M., Shunmugam, M., Roungprakhon, S., Rawat, S., . . . Scarpa, R. (2021). Willingness to use Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) and preferences among men who have sex with men in Mumbai and Chennai, India: A discrete choice experiment. AIDS and Behavior, online, 11 pages. doi:10.1007/s10461-021-03253-5
Tran, N. T. M., Cameron, M. P., & Poot, J. (2021). How robust is the evidence on the impact of diasporas on institutional quality in home countries?. Kyklos, 74(1), 126-152. doi:10.1111/kykl.12254
Tran, N. T. M., Cameron, M. P., & Poot, J. (2021). Perception of institutional quality differences and intention of migrants to return home: a case study of Vietnamese diaspora. Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science. doi:10.1007/s41685-021-00212-9
Simpson, M., Oetzel, J., Nock, S., Greensill, H., Meha, P., Reddy, R., . . . Hokowhitu, B. (2021). Māori becoming peer educators in later life: Impacts on identity, well-being, and social connectedness. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 76(6), 1140-1150. doi:10.1093/geronb/gbaa078
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Keywords
Economic Development; Economics; Health; Population Studies; Teaching and Learning
Contact Details
Email: [email protected]Room: MSB.2.23
Phone: +64 7 858 5082