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Mount Allison University

Avard-Dixon, Rm. 238
144 Main St.
Sackville, NB E4L 1A7

Tel: (506) 364-2278
Fax: (506) 364-2625
email:cvanbese(at)mta.ca

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My research interests are in the areas of survey research, public policy, and voting. They include, but are not limited to: survey methodology, public opinion, voting behavior, educational policy, environmental economics, and empirical methods/econometrics. My recent work has focused primarily on Internet-based survey methodology and selection bias in surveys and program evaluation. While I am very interested in survey research and consider surveys to be a fundamental tool to understanding individual beliefs and behavior, my substantive interests are involve understanding incentives and individual beliefs and behaviours. I also have serious methodological/econometrics interests especially in reference to discrete choice analysis, sample selection bias, and program evaluation.

During the summer of 2005, I worked on a large interdisciplinary teaching project which focuses on how our transportation decisions affect the environment. Working with 2 students and in partnership with 30 faculty members who represent 20 different departments around campus, I led the development of teaching modules on the environment that will be implemented in existing classes around campus. The objective was to encourage students to be aware of the externalities involved in consumption and to recognize what can be done to off-set any negative environmental impacts. As part of this project, we developed a website and are now offering a tool to facilitate carpooling among MTA students, staff and faculty. You can check out the details at MTA's eco-cdn website.

My Thesis. Abstract and PDF Link.

"Subject Acquisition for Web-Based Surveys."Political Analysis, 2003: 11-1, With R. Michael Alvarez and Robert Sherman. Abstract and PDF Link.

"Web-based Surveys." in The Encyclopedia of Measurement 2005. With R. Michael Alvarez. Abstract and PDF Link.

"Designing Effective and Efficient Regulations: The Role of the Business Impact Test." Government of Canada, 1997. With Robert Jenness and Russ Roberts. Abstract.

Working Papers

"Attribution of Responsibility and Priming in Economic Perception Survey Questions." With R. Michael Alvarez and Garrett Glasgow. Abstract and PDF Link.

"Full Information Maximum Likelihood Methods for Discrete Choices under Sample Truncation." Presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting Aug. 29-Sept. 1, 2002. Abstract and PDF Link.

For a complete listing of my publications, see my curriculum vitae.

American Political Science Association
American Economics Association
Canadian Economics Association
American Statistical Association
American Association of Public Opinion Research
Canadian Political Science Association
Political Methodology

Statistics Canada
National Elections Studies
Canadian Elections Studies