Team

The Truckers & Turnover Project is a multi-year study in the field of “behavioral personnel economics” conducted by a team of University of Minnesota, Morris faculty and students, and faculty at other institutions, in cooperation with a large motor carrier.

Project Faculty

University of Minnesota, Morris

Co-Investigators from Other Institutions

  • Jeffrey Carpenter, Economics, Middlebury College
  • Andrew Clark, Economics, Paris School of Economics
  • Colin DeYoung, Psychology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
  • Lorenz Götte, Economics, University of Lausanne
  • Fred Guy, Management, Birkbeck College, University of London
  • Jeffrey Hickman, Behavioral Analysis/Human Factors, Virginia Tech Transportation Institute
  • Mitchell Hoffman, School of Management, Yale University
  • Stefanos Kales, Occupational Medicine, Harvard Medical School & Harvard School of Public Health
  • Kristen Monaco, Economics, California State University at Long Beach
  • Daneile Nosenzo, Economics, University of Nottingham
  • Kay (Saager) Porter, Cooperating Firm, 2005-06
  • Aldo Rustichini, Economics, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Project Staff

  • Becca Erickson ’13

Associated Graduate Students

  • Matthew Bombyk (UMM ’10), M.A. Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
  • Derek Ganzhorn (UMM ’09), M.A., University of Massachusetts at Amherst
  • Karsten Maurer (UMM ’09), doctoral candidate in statistics, Iowa State University

Morris Student Researchers

Summer 2013

  • Andrew Lexvold ’13
  • Tim Ginader ’13
  • Alice Toll ’14
  • Ehren Wessel ’14
  • Nicholas Cornhill ’14

Summer 2012, 2012–13

  • Ann Austin ’13
  • Tim Ginader ’13
  • Connor Lewis ’15
  • Andrew Lexvold ’13
  • Hong Liu ’13
  • Michael Luetmer ’06
  • Kenna Nelson ’13
  • Jiachen Ning ’14

Summer 2011, 2011–2012

  • Tim Ginader ’13
  • Kenna Nelson ’13
  • Xueyang Jiao ’12
  • Jiachen Ning ’14

Summer 2010, 2010–2011

  • Lea Awoudi ’12
  • Manjari Govada ’12
  • Ayano Jiru ’12
  • Ruth Potter, ’12
  • Chris Thorne ’11
  • Kristin Starner ’11
  • Kim Rocha ’11

Summer 2009, 2009–2010

  • Matt Bombyk ’10
  • Manjari Govada ’12
  • Kim Rocha ’11
  • Kristin Starner ’11
  • Tricia Steffen ’11
  • Chris Thorne ’11

Summer 2008, 2008–2009

  • Nicole Dobmeier ’09
  • Lisa Lenzmeier ’09
  • Matt Bombyk ’10
  • Manjari Govada ’12
  • Tricia Steffen ’11
  • Chris Thorne ’11

Summer 2007, 2007–2008

  • Derek Ganzhorn ’08
  • Erik Lindholm ’08

2006-2007

  • William Leuthner ’07
  • Erin Christenson ’07

2005–06, Summer 2006

  • Adam Durand ’06
  • William Leuthner ’07
  • Erin Christenson ’07

Summer 2004, 2004–2005

  • Kay (Saager) Porter ’05

Project Funders

  • The Cooperating Motor Carrier
  • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
  • The John D. and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Norms and Preferences
  • The Trucking Industry Program, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
  • The University of Minnesota, Morris



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