Stephen Cameron

{{Short description|American economist}}

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| name = Stephen Cameron

| school_tradition = Chicago School of Economics

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| nationality = American

| institution = Columbia University

| field = Microeconomics

| alma_mater = University of Chicago
Brigham Young University

| doctoral_advisor = James Heckman

| awards = Hettleman Award for Excellence in Research and Teaching

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| url = {{URL|https://sipa.columbia.edu/faculty/stephen-v-cameron}}

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Stephen Cameron is an American financial analyst, economist and author. He is currently Adjunct Associate Professor and was for many years an associate professor of economics at Columbia University, and is currently serving as Director at Citi.{{cite web |title=Columbia University SIPA faculty |url=https://sipa.columbia.edu/faculty/stephen-v-cameron |website=Columbia University SIPA |publisher=Columbia University |accessdate=2015-02-26 |archive-date=June 21, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170621053847/https://sipa.columbia.edu/faculty/stephen-v-cameron |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |title=Stephen Cameron |url=https://www.linkedin.com/pub/stephen-cameron/5/b9b/53a |website=LinkedIn |accessdate=2022-07-15}}

He is most noted for his econometric and applied work on educational selection, the dynamics of educational attainment, and the causal value of General Educational Development test outcomes while a professor at Columbia and a dissertator under James Heckman at the University of Chicago.{{cite news|last1=Hanford|first1=Emily|last2=Smith|first2=Stephen|last3=Stern|first3=Laurie|title=Second-Chance Diploma: Examining the GED|url=http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/ged/|accessdate=2015-03-03|work=American Radio Works|publisher=publicradio.org|date=September 1, 2013}}{{cite news|last1=Cameron|first1=Stephen|last2=Heckman|first2=James|title=Equivalency Diploma Still Has Value; Wide Sampling Used|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/26/opinion/l-equivalency-diploma-still-has-value-wide-sampling-used-119693.html|accessdate=2015-02-26|work=New York Times|date=June 23, 1993}}{{cite book|editor1-last=Heckman|editor1-first=James|editor2-last=Humphries|editor2-first=John|editor3-last=Kautz|editor3-first=Tim|title=The Myth of Achievement Tests: The GED and the Role of Character in American Life|date=January 9, 2014|publisher=University of Chicago Press|location=Chicago|isbn=978-0226100098|page=XV|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gJGPAgAAQBAJ&q=cameron|accessdate=2015-03-03|quote=heckman-quote}}

He has held quantitative financial analyst and management roles at Wall Street firms, including Citadel LLC, Lord Abbett, and Continuum Investment Management. A graduate of the University of Chicago and Brigham Young University, he has co-authored an academic book studying poverty in New York City.{{cite book|last1=Aaronson|first1=Stephanie|authorlink1=Stephanie Aaronson |last2=Cameron|first2=Stephen|title=Poverty in New York City, 1996: An update and perspectives : a report to the Community Service Society of New York|date=1997|publisher=Community Service Society of New York|isbn=978-0881562040|pages=91}} He lives in New York City with his children and wife Marianne Cameron, a historian{{cite web|title=BCC CUNY Faculty|url=https://www.bcc.cuny.edu/OWA/Faculty.htm|website=BCC CUNY|publisher=CUNY|accessdate=2015-02-28}} and Fulbright-Hays Recipient.{{cite web|title=Fulbright-Hays Recipients, 1991|url=http://www.uchicago.edu/about/accolades/15/|website=University of Chicago|accessdate=2015-02-28}}