Lisa Cameron

The dirty business of eliminating open defecation: The effect of village sanitation on child height from field experiments in four countries

L Cameron, P Gertler, M Shah, ML Alzua, S Martinez, S Patil

Journal article  |  2022  |  Journal of Development Economics

We examine the impacts of a sanitation program designed to eliminate open defecation in at-scale randomized field experiments in f..

Does being ?left-behind? in childhood lead to criminality in adulthood? Evidence from data on rural-urban migrants and prison inmates in China

Lisa Cameron, Xin Meng, Dandan Zhang

Journal article  |  2022  |  JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR & ORGANIZATION

Large scale rural-to-urban migration and China's household registration system have resulted in about 61 million children being le..

Child marriage: using the Indonesian family life survey to examine the lives of women and men who married at an early age

Lisa Cameron, Diana Contreras Suarez, Susan Wieczkiewicz

Journal article  |  2022  |  REVIEW OF ECONOMICS OF THE HOUSEHOLD

An understanding of the experiences of men and women who marry before adulthood is important in motivating social change. Using fi..

Information, Intermediaries, and International Migration

Samuel Bazzi, Lisa Cameron, Simone Schaner, Firman Witoelar

Report  |  2021

Job seekers often face substantial information frictions related to potential job quality. This is especially true in internationa..

Relationship between water and sanitation and maternal health: Evidence from Indonesia

L Cameron, C Chase, D Contreras Suarez

Journal article  |  2021  |  World Development

Poor household water supply and sanitation can affect maternal and newborn health outcomes through several pathways, including the..

Sanitation, financial incentives and health spillovers: A cluster randomised trial

Lisa Cameron, Paulo Santos, Milan Thomas, Jeff Albert

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS

Poor sanitation and its consequent negative health outcomes continue to plague the developing world. Drawing on the finding that f..

CRIMES AGAINST MORALITY: UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF CRIMINALIZING SEX WORK

Lisa Cameron, Jennifer Seager, Manisha Shah

Journal article  |  2021  |  QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS

We examine the impact of criminalizing sex work, exploiting an event in which local officials unexpectedly criminalized sex work i..

Theoretical Underpinnings and Meta-analysis of the Effects of Cash Transfers on Intimate Partner Violence in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

V Baranov, L Cameron, D Contreras Suarez, C Thibout

Journal article  |  2021  |  Journal of Development Studies

The number of studies examining the effects of cash transfer (CT) programs on Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) has rapidly grown ov..

Erratum: China's Sex Ratio and Crime: Behavioural Change or Financial Necessity? (The Economic Journal 129:618 (790-820) DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12561)

L Cameron, X Meng, D Zhang

Journal article  |  2021  |  Economic Journal

Originally published in Economic Journal, 129 Issue 618 (February), 790-820. https://doi.org/ 10.1111/ecoj.12561 In the course of ..

Future Directions: Study Protocol for an Effectiveness-Implementation Hybrid Evaluation of a State-based Social Housing Strategy and Three Social Housing Programs

Lisa Ann Cameron, Lena Etuk, Jessica Hateley-Browne, Guyonne Kalb, Belinda Parker, Vanessa Rose, Ferdi Botha, Diana Contreras Suarez, Nicolas Herault, Jordy Meekes, Julie Moschion, Rosanna Scutella, Yi-Ping Tseng, Ella Creet, Danika Koop

Journal article  |  2021  |  Social Science Protocols

Background: In the Australian state of New South Wales nearly 60,000 approved applicants are waiting for social housing. Future Di..