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Stephen Burks is Associate Professor of Economics and Management at the University of Minnesota, Morris. He earned his Ph.D. in economics in 1999 from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. His two main research areas are experimental and behavioral personnel economics, and the economics of the U.S. trucking industry, and he discovered his interest in the former in part through his work on the labor market of the latter. Much of his empirical research addresses how experimentally identified social, loss, time, and risk preferences affect the way in which labor economics explains the employment relationship. Recently he has begun working on the relationship between the health status of truckers and their accident risk, turnover, productivity, and medical costs. He is affiliated with the Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics ("CeDEx," University of Nottingham, UK), the Center for Transportation Studies (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), the Trucking Industry Program (Georgia Institute of Technology), and he is Vice Chair of the standing technical Committee on Trucking Industry Research (AT060) at the Transportation Research Board (a division of the National Research Councils of the U.S.) His work has been published in Management Science, the Review of Economic Studies, Experimental Economics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (USA), the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Accident Analysis and Prevention, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Research in Experimental Economics, and Research in Transportation Economics, among other places.
He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in March 2005. |
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IZA Discussion Papers:
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Stephen V. Burks
Bo Cowgill
Mitchell Hoffman
Michael Housman
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The Value of Hiring through Referrals
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| 6750 |
Aldo Rustichini
Colin G. DeYoung
Jon Anderson
Stephen V. Burks
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Toward the Integration of Personality Theory and Decision Theory in the Explanation of Economic and Health Behavior
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| 6408 |
Jon Anderson
Manjari Govada
Tricia K. Steffen
Chris P. Thorne
Vasileia Varvarigou
Stefanos N. Kales
Stephen V. Burks
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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
(revised version published as 'Obesity is associated with the future risk of heavy truck crashes among newly recruited commercial drivers,' in: Accident Analysis and Prevention, 2012, 49, 378-384) |
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Stephen V. Burks
Frederick Guy
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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
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Stephen V. Burks
Erin L. Krupka
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A Multi-Method Approach to Identifying Norms and Normative Expectations within a Corporate Hierarchy: Evidence from the Financial Services Industry
(revised version published in: Management Science, 2012, 1 (58), 203-217) |
| 5808 |
Stephen V. Burks
Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Lorenz Götte
Aldo Rustichini
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Which Measures of Time Preference Best Predict Outcomes? Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment
(revised version forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012) |
| 5389 |
Jon Anderson
Stephen V. Burks
Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Lorenz Götte
Karsten Maurer
Daniele Nosenzo
Ruth Potter
Kim Rocha
Aldo Rustichini
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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
(revised version published online as 'Self-selection and variations in the laboratory measurement of other-regarding preferences across subject pools: evidence from one college student and two adult samples' in: Experimental Economics, 2012, [Online First]) |
| 4840 |
Stephen V. Burks
Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Lorenz Götte
Aldo Rustichini
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Overconfidence is a Social Signaling Bias
(revised version forthcoming as 'Overconfidence and Social Signalling' in: Review of Economic Studies) |
| 3609 |
Stephen V. Burks
Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Lorenz Götte
Aldo Rustichini
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Cognitive Skills Explain Economic Preferences, Strategic Behavior, and Job Attachment
(revised version published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2009, 106 (19), 7745-7750) |
| 2789 |
Stephen V. Burks
Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Lorenz Götte
Kristen Monaco
Kay Porter
Aldo Rustichini
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Using Behavioral Economic Experiments at a Large Motor Carrier: The Context and Design of the Truckers and Turnover Project
(published in: Stefan Bender, Julia Lane, Kathryn Shaw, Fredrik Andersson, and Till Von Wachter (eds.), The Analysis of Firms and Employees: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches, NBER and University of Chicago Press, 2008, 45-106) |
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Kenneth D. Boyer
Stephen V. Burks
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Stuck in the Slow Lane: Traffic Composition and the Measurement of Labor Productivity in the U.S. Trucking Industry
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 75 (4), 2009, 1220-1237) |
| 2013 |
Stephen V. Burks
Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Lorenz Götte
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Performance Pay and the Erosion of Worker Cooperation: Field Experimental Evidence
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 70 (3), 458-469) |
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Eric Verhoogen
Stephen V. Burks
Jeffrey P. Carpenter
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Fairness and Freight-Handlers: Local Labor-Market Conditions and Wage-Fairness Perceptions in a Trucking Firm
(revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (4), 477-498) |
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Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Stephen V. Burks
Eric Verhoogen
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Comparing Students to Workers: The Effects of Social Framing on Behavior in Distribution Games
(published in: J. Carpenter, G. Harrison, and J. List (eds.), Field Experiments in Economics (Research in Experimental Economics, 10), 2005, 261 - 289) |
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