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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

emphasizing variables derived from formal decision theory. In a data set on trainee truckers in a large US company, we provide a … comparing the predictive power of measurements derived from personality theory and decision theory for several individual …. Further, decision theory and personality variables are meaningfully related. For example, we confirm that cognitive ability …

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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

This study estimates the dose-response relationship between Body Mass Index (BMI) and crash risk in commercial motor vehicle operators. Intake data was collected on 744 new truck drivers who were training for their commercial driver's licenses at a school operated by the cooperating trucking...

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Fairness and freight-handlers : local labor-market conditions and wage-fairness perceptions in a trucking firm

Verhoogen, Eric (contributor); Burks, Stephen V. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

This paper draws on evidence from an internal attitude survey in the freight-handling terminals of a unionized trucking firm to investigate the effect of local labor market conditions on employee wage-fairness perceptions. The key element of our research design is that local managers have no...

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Performance pay and the erosion of worker cooperation : field experimental evidence

Burks, Stephen V. (contributor); … - 2006

We report the results of a field experiment with bicycle messengers in Switzerland and the United States. Messenger work is individualized enough that firms can choose to condition pay on it, but significant externalities in messenger behavior nonetheless give their on-the-job interactions the...

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