Stephen Burks is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Management at the University of Minnesota Morris (UMN Morris), where he has been since 1999. His two main research areas are experimental and behavioral personnel economics, and the economics of the U.S. trucking industry; he discovered experimental and behavioral economics while analyzing the effects of the 1980 deregulation of the US trucking industry on the labor market for truck drivers, for his doctoral work in economics at UMass-Amherst. His early empirical research addressed how experimentally identified social, loss, time, and risk preferences affect the way in which labor economics explains the employment relationship. More recently he has been working on the relationship between the health status of truckers and their accident risk, turnover, productivity, and medical costs, along with a renewed look at the structure and dynamics of the US labor market for truck drivers. He is a Research Scholar at the University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies, and is affiliated with the Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx), University of Nottingham, UK. He was a founding member and a past Chair of the standing technical Committee on Trucking Industry Research (AT060) at the Transportation Research Board (an arm of the National Academies of the U.S.). His work has been published in Sleep, Management Science, the Review of Economic Studies, Experimental Economics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (USA), the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Accident Analysis and Prevention, and the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, among other places. He received the UMN Morris Faculty Distinguished Research award in 2014, and the UMN Morris Truckers & Turnover Project, which he leads, received the UMN Center for Transportation Studies Robert C. Johns Research Partnership Award, for collaborative work on sleep apnea among truckers, in 2019. He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in March 2005.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6408
Jon E. Anderson, Manjari Govada, Tricia K. Steffen, Chris P. Thorne, Vasileia Varvarigou, Stefanos N. Kales, Stephen V. Burks
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5808
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 84 (1), 308-320
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5389
revised version published 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, 2013, 16 (2), 170-189
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4840
revised version published as 'Overconfidence and Social Signalling' in: Review of Economic Studies, 2013, 80 (3), 949-983
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3609
revised version published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2009, 106 (19), 7745-7750
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2789
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2576
published in: Southern Economic Journal, 75 (4), 2009, 1220-1237
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2013
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 70 (3), 458-469
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