Trudy Ann Cameron, University of Oregon

Trudy Ann Cameron

Raymond F. Mikesell Professor
of Environmental and Resource Economics

Department of Economics, University of Oregon
PLC 430; 541-346-1242; cameron@uoregon.edu

Curriculum Vita (comprehensive): PDF

Abstracts of Publications

Abstracts of Manuscripts and Working Papers

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Trudy Ann Cameron (Ph.D. Princeton, 1982) occupies the Raymond F. Mikesell Chair in Environmental and Resource Economics at the University of Oregon. She joined the University of Oregon faculty in 2001, having been previously a Professor of Economics at UCLA. In addition to her academic appointment, she has served in a policy advising capacity on the Science Advisory Board of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, both on the Environmental Economics Advisory Committee and as chair of the of the U.S. EPA's Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis. The "Council" is a committee of the Agency's Science Advisory Board that monitors the EPA's congressionally mandated benefit-cost analysis of the Clean Air Act. Professor Cameron has served as president of the 800-member Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (AERE) during 2007-2008 and will continue for another two years as past-president. She has previously been a member of the Board of Directors and vice-president of the organization. She has also served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Professor Cameron has research interests in the valuation of non-market goods--in particular, the empirical measurement of the social benefits of environmental regulations and policies. Her research focuses on empirical methodologies to improve the quality of stated preference demand information, both through appropriate survey design and suitable econometric models. Her research in recent years has emphasized measurement of the willingness of households to incur the costs of climate change mitigation and health risk reductions. This research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and Health Canada.

TEACHING

Professor Cameron teaches environmental economics and econometrics at the graduate level, as well as environmental and natural resource economics at the undergraduate level. Beginning in Winter 2009, she will also teach a course in Environmental Studies which is designed to impart "just enough economics" for environmental studies majors.

- Economics 607 (Seminar in Environmental Economics)
- Economics 425/525 (Econometrics)
- Economics 607 (Seminar in Econometrics II)
- Economics 433/533 (Environment and Resource Economics)
- Environmental Studies 399 (Allocating Scarce Environmental Resources - Draft syllabus)

SELECTED WORKING PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS

Working papers and manuscripts:

T.A. Cameron and J.R. DeShazo (2008) "A Generalized Empirical Model of Demand for Health Risk Reductions " (under review, November)

T.A. Cameron and J.R. DeShazo (2008) "Differential Attention to Attributes in Utility-theoretic Choice Models " (under review, October)

B. Cai and T.A. Cameron (2008) "Distributional Preferences and the Incidence of Costs and Benefits in Climate Change Policy" (under review)

R.C. Bosworth, T.A. Cameron, and J.R. DeShazo (2008) "The Role of Rates of Time Preference in Demand for Environmental Health Programs: Do Private Discount Rates Help Explain Public Choices?" (under review)

R.C. Bosworth, T.A. Cameron, and J.R. DeShazo (2008) "Is An Ounce of Prevention Worth a Pound of Cure? Comparing Demand for Public Prevention and Treatment Policies" (under review)

E.H. Johnson, T.A. Cameron and J.R. DeShazo (2007 initial version) "'Scenario Adjustment' in Stated Preference Research." (under review)

T.A. Cameron, J.R. DeShazo and E.H. Johnson (2007 initial version) "The Effect of Children on Adult Demands for Health-Risk Reductions ." (revise-and-resubmit)

T.A. Cameron and G.R. Gerdes (2006 initial version) "Discounting versus risk aversion: their effects on individual demands for climate change mitigation ." (revise-and-resubmit)

T.A. Cameron and G.R. Gerdes (2005 initial version) "Individual Subjective Discounting: Form, Context, Format, and Noise." (revise-and-resubmit)

J.R. DeShazo and T.A. Cameron (2006 initial version) "Two Types of Age Effects in the Demand for Reductions in Mortality Risks with Differing Latencies ." (pending submission)

J.R. DeShazo and T.A. Cameron (2006 initial version) "The Effect of Health Status on Willingness to Pay for Morbidity and Mortality Risk Reductions." (pending submission)

T.A. Cameron and J.R. DeShazo (2006 initial version) "A Comprehensive Assessment of Selection in a Major Internet Panel for the Case of Attitudes toward Government Regulation ." (pending submission)

Some recent publications:

J.R. DeShazo, T.A. Cameron, and M. Saenz (2009) "The effect of consumers' real-world choice sets on inferences from stated preference surveys " Environmental & Resource Economics, (forthcoming).

R.C. Bosworth, T.A. Cameron, and J.R. DeShazo (2008) "Demand for Environmental Policies to Improve Health: Evaluating Community-Level Policy Scenarios" Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, (forthcoming).

J.J. Lee and T.A. Cameron (2008) "Popular Support for Climate Change Mitigation: Evidence from a General Population Mail Survey " Environmental & Resource Economics, 41(2), 223-248.

D.R. Burghart, T.A. Cameron, and G.R. Gerdes (2007) "Valuing Publicly Sponsored Research Projects: Risks, Scenario Adjustments, and Inattention," Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 35(1), 77-105.

T.A. Cameron and I.T. McConnaha (2006) "Evidence of environmental migration," Land Economics, 82(2), 273-290.

T.A. Cameron (2006) "Directional heterogeneity in distance profiles in hedonic property value models," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 51(1), 26-45.

K. Messer, W.D. Schulze, K.F. Hackett, T.A. Cameron, and G. McClelland (2006) "Can Stigma Explain Large Property Value Losses? The Psychology and Economics of Superfund," Environment and Resource Economics, 33(3), 299-324.

T.A. Cameron (2005) "Updating subjective risks in the presence of conflicting information: An application to climate change," Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 30(1), 63-97.

T.A. Cameron (2005) "Individual option prices for climate change mitigation," Journal of Public Economics, 89(2-3), 283-301.

T.A. Cameron, G.L. Poe, R.G. Ethier, and W.D. Schulze (2002) "Alternative non-market value-elicitation methods: Are the underlying preferences the same?," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 44(3), 391-425.

Five other significant publications:

T.A. Cameron, and J. Englin (1997) "Respondent experience and contingent valuation of environmental goods," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 33(3), 296-313.

T.A. Cameron, and J. Quiggin (1994) "Estimation Using Contingent Valuation Data from a Dichotomous Choice with Follow-up Questionnaire," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 27(3), 218-234.

T.A. Cameron (1992) "Combining Contingent Valuation and Travel Cost Data for the Valuation of Nonmarket Goods," Land Economics, 68(3), 302-317.

T.A. Cameron (1988) "A New Paradigm for Valuing Non-Market Goods Using Referendum Data - Maximum-Likelihood Estimation by Censored Logistic-Regression," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 15(3), 355-379.

T.A. Cameron, and M.D. James (1987) "Efficient Estimation Methods for Closed-Ended Contingent Valuation Surveys," Review of Economics and Statistics, 69(2), 269-276.