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008 070525s2007 mau sb 000 0 eng
010 $a 2007615130
040 $aDLC$cDLC
050 00 $aHB1
100 1 $aBurks, Stephen V.
245 10 $aUsing behavioral economic field experiments at a large motor carrier$h[electronic resource] :$bthe context and design of the truckers and turnover project /$cStephen V. Burks, Jeffrey Carpenter, Lorenz Goette, Kristen Monaco, Aldo Rustichini, Kay Porter.
260 $aCambridge, MA :$bNational Bureau of Economic Research,$cc2007.
490 1 $aNBER working paper series ;$vworking paper 12976
538 $aSystem requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
538 $aMode of access: World Wide Web.
500 $aTitle from PDF file as viewed on 5/25/2007.
530 $aAlso available in print.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 3 $a"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 innovation is the data collection process which combines traditional survey instruments with behavioral economics experiments. The survey data include information on demographics, risk and loss aversion, time preference, planning, non-verbal IQ, and the MPQ personality profile. The data collected by behavioral economics experiments include risk and loss aversion, time preferences (discount rates), backward induction, patience, and the preference for cooperation in a social dilemma setting. Subjects will be followed over two years of their work lives. Among the major design goals are to discover the extent to which the survey and experimental measures are correlated, and whether and how much predictive power, with respect to key on-the-job outcome variables, is added by the behavioral measures. The panel study of new hires is being carried out against the backdrop of a second research component, the development of a more conventional in-depth statistical case study of the cooperating firm and its employees. This is a high-turnover service industry setting, and the focus is on the use of survival analysis to model the flow of new employees into and out of employment, and on the correct estimation of the tenure-productivity curve for new hires, accounting for the selection effects of the high turnover"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
700 1 $aBurks, Stephen V.
700 1 $aCarpenter, Jeffrey.
700 1 $aGoette, Lorenz.
700 1 $aMonaco, Kristen.
710 2 $aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830 0 $aWorking paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;$vworking paper no. 12976.
856 40 $uhttp://papers.nber.org/papers/w12976