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Job creation and job destruction dynamics in the U.S. truck transportation industry, 1995-2019

Miller, Jason W.; Phares, Jonathan; Burks, Stephen V. - 2023

these dynamics unfold, especially for young carriers, is critical to further our understanding of employment dynamics in the … these age-related dynamics are moderated by employment dynamics in the manufacturing sector. We discuss implications of …

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Stuck in the slow lane : traffic composition and the measurement of labor productivity in the US trucking industry

Boyer, Kenneth Duncan (contributor); … - 2007

"Mirroring the railroad industry of the 1940's and 1950's, the trucking industry today appears to be achieving impressive productivity gains. But it is easy to confuse true productivity advances in transportation industries with changes in ton-miles per unit of input that are due simply to...

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Using behavioral economic experiments at a large motor carrier : the context and design of the truckers and turnover project

Burks, Stephen V. (contributor) - 2007

setting, and the focus is on the use of survival analysis to model the flow of new employees into and out of employment, and …

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Toward the integration of personality theory and decision theory in the explanation of economic and health behavior

Rustichini, Aldo; DeYoung, Colin G.; Anderson, Jon; … - 2012

Trait-based personality psychology and economics have taken different approaches to understanding individual differences, with the former emphasizing variables derived from the factor analysis of trait assessments, and the latter emphasizing variables derived from formal decision theory. In a...

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What are over-the-road truckers paid for? : evidence from an exogenous regulatory change on the role of social comparisons and work organization in wage determination

Burks, Stephen V.; Guy, Frederick - 2012

Using evidence from recent work on truckers and disaggregated older data prior researchers did not have, we revisit a classic topic and find some new answers. We focus on differentials in average annual earnings at the firm level among mileage-paid over-the-road tractor-trailer drivers ("road...

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Health behavior and accident risk : obesity is associated with the future risk of heavy truck crashes among newly recruited commercial drivers

Anderson, Jon E.; Govada, Manjari; Steffen, Tricia K.; … - 2012

followed prospectively on the job using the firm's operational data for two years, or until employment separation, whichever …

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Which measures of time preference best predict outcomes? : evidence from a large-scale field experiment

Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Götte, Lorenz; … - 2011

Economists and psychologists have devised numerous instruments to measure time preferences and have generated a rich literature examining the extent to which time preferences predict important outcomes; however, we still do not know which measures work best. With the help of a large sample of...

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Self selection does not increase other-regarding preferences among adult laboratory subjects, but student subjects may be more self-regarding than adults

Anderson, Jon; Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; … - 2010

We use a sequential prisoner's dilemma game to measure the other-regarding behavior in samples from three related populations in the upper Midwest of the United States: 100 college students, 94 non-student adults from the community surrounding the college and 1,069 adult trainee truckers in a...

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Unobserved ability and the return to schooling

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002

We estimate a structural dynamic programming model of schooling decisions with unobserved heterogeneity in school ability and market ability on a sample taken from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Both the instantaneous utility of attending school and the wage regression...

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A structural analysis of the correlated random coefficient wage regression model

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002

We estimate a finite mixture dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the log wage regression function is set in a random coefficient framework. The model allows for absolute and comparative advantages in the labor market and assumes that the population is composed of 8 unknown...

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