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Overconfidence is a social signaling bias

Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Götte, Lorenz; … - 2010

the desire to send positive signals to others about one’s own skill; this suggests a either a bias in judgment, strategic …

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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

The Truckers and Turnover Project is a statistical case study of a single firm and its employees which matches proprietary personnel and operational data to new data collected by the researchers to create a two-year panel study of a large subset of new hires. The project's most distinctive...

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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

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

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

) formulation of present bias and exponential discounting predicts best, especially when both parameters are used. -- time … preference ; impatience ; discounting ; present bias ; field experiment ; trucker …

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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

-selected adults and the adult trainees, suggesting that selection into this type of experiment is unlikely to bias inferences with …-social. Regression results controlling for demographic factors confirm these basic findings. -- methodology ; selection bias ; laboratory …

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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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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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