2 Using Behavioral Economic Field Experiments at a Firm The Context and Design of the Truckers and Turnover Introduction The Truckers and Turnover Project is a statistical case study of a single large trucking firm and its driver employees | 2 Using Behavioral Economic Field Experiments at a Firm The Context and Design of the Truckers and Turnover Project Stephen V Burks Jeffrey Carpenter Lorenz Götte Kristen Monaco Kay Porter and Aldo Rustichini Introduction The Truckers and Turnover Project is a statistical case study of a single large trucking firm and its driver employees. The cooperating firm operates in the largest segment of the for-hire trucking industry in the United States the full truckload TL segment in which approximately 800 000 people Stephen V. Burks is an associate professor of economics and management at the University of Minnesota Morris. Jeffrey Carpenter is an associate professor of economics at Middlebury College. Lorenz Götte is a senior economist in the Research Center for Behavioral Economics and Decisionmaking at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Kristen Monaco is a professor of economics at California State University Long Beach. Kay Porter is a business research manager at the cooperating firm. Aldo Rustichini is a professor of economics at the University of Minnesota. Earlier versions of this paper have been issued as NBER Working Paper no. 12976 March 2007 IZA Discussion Paper no. 2789 May 2007 and also under a different title Adding Behavioral Economics Field Experiments to the Industry Studies Toolkit Predicting Truck Driver Job Exits in a High Turnover Setting as a Sloan Industry Studies Working Paper 2007 . This paper was presented at the Sloan Industry Studies Annual Research Conference held in Boston MA April 25 to 27 2007 and the authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for the conference. It was also presented at the Conference on the Analysis of Firms and Employees CAFE held September 29 to 30 2006 in Nuremberg Germany and the authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided to the Conference by the Institute for Employment Research IAB the Data Access Center FDZ-BA IAB the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft .
