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Dr. Carla VanBeselaere
On Sabbatical Leave (2012/13)
Mount Allison University
Avard-Dixon, Rm. 238
144 Main St.
Sackville, NB E4L 1A7
Tel: (506) 364-2326 (Soc
Sci Secretary)
Fax: (506) 364-2625
email:cvanbese(at)mta.ca
Courses
2012-13
On Sabbatical Leave
2011-12
ECON 3801A - Environmental Economics
ECON 3401A - Survey Methodology
ECON 3901A - International Trade
ECON 2701A - Statistics for Business and Economics
ECON 3721A - Labour Economics
I specialize in survey research and quantitative methods/econometrics. My recent work has focused primarily on Internet-based survey methodology, selection bias in surveys, and survey nonresponse. While I am an expert in survey methods, my substantive interests involve understanding the factors that affect individual behaviours such as voting, being environmentally conscientious, and succeeding at school. Because my interests are quite broad, I have undertaken work in various fields including voting behaviour, environmental behaviour, and student performance. I also have serious methodological/econometrics interests especially in reference to discrete choice analysis and correcting selection bias.
“Full Information Maximum Likelihood Methods for Discrete Choice under Sample Trucation.” in Communication in Statistics – Simulation and Computation, (Forthcoming).
"Web-based Surveys." in The Encyclopedia of Measurement 2005. With R. Michael Alvarez.
"Subject Acquisition for Web-Based Surveys." Political Analysis, 2003: 11-1, With R. Michael Alvarez and Robert Sherman.
My Thesis.
Working PapersAbstract and PDF Link.
“Survey Response Shirking: A Rational Model of Response Strategies for Coping with the Cognitive Demands of Attitude Measures in Surveys."
"Attribution of Responsibility and Priming in Economic Perception Survey Questions." With R. Michael Alvarez and Garrett Glasgow."
“Social Networks and Voter Turnout in the 2004 Canadian Federal Election outside Quebec.”
“Predicting Student Retention and Performance Based on Data from Surveys of Student Engagement.”
for a complete listing ofmy publications, see my
eco-cdn
During the summer of 2005, I worked on a large interdisciplinary teaching project which focuses on how our transportation decisions affect climate change. In partnership with 30 faculty members who represent 20 different departments around campus, I worked with two students to develop interdisciplinary teaching modules about climate change. 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 MTA's eco-cdn website.
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