Stuck in the slow lane: Undoing traffic composition biases in the measurement of trucking productivity

Southern Economic Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1220-1237

  Boyer, Kenneth D ^a   Burks, Stephen V ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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