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), and a research associate of the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM) at the University of Canberra. 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 liquor outlet density, the economics of communicable diseases especially HIV/AIDS, health applications of non-market valuation, and health and development project monitoring and evaluation), population modelling and stochastic modelling, financial literacy and economics education.
Dr Cameron received Outstanding Teaching Awards from Waikato Management School in 2009 and 2013, along with a 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: return migration to Vietnam; informal labour in Timor Leste; fuel choice and indoor air pollution in Pakistan; and agent-based modelling for developing small-area population projections. I regularly supervise Summer Research Scholarships, including four students in 2015-16 and two in 2014-15.
Recent Publications
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
Cameron, M., & Poot, J. (2018). The estimation and interpretation of coefficients in panel gravity models of migration: Working Paper in Economics (1/18). Hamilton, New Zealand: Waikato Management School.
Tran, N., Cameron, M., & Poot, J. (2018). Local institutional quality and return migration: Evidence from Vietnam. International Migration, online, 16 pages. doi:10.1111/imig.12451
Irfan, M., Cameron, M., & Hassan, G. (2018). The causal impact of solid fuel use on mortality: A cross-country panel analysis: Working Paper in Economics (18/11). Waikato Management School.
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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