Learning by Driving: Productivity Improvements by New York City Taxi Drivers

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Haggag, Kareem; McManus, Brian; Paci, Giovanni
• 署名单位: University of Chicago; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; New York University
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20150059
• 发表日期: 2017
• 页码: 70-95
• 关键词: reference-dependent preferences; moral hazard; cab drivers; experience; industry; wages; performance; cabdrivers; seniority; MODEL

摘要

We study learning by doing by New York City taxi drivers, who have substantial discretion over their driving strategies and receive compensation closely tied to their success in finding customers. In addition to documenting learning overall by these entrepreneurial agents, we exploit our data's breadth. to investigate the factors that contribute to driver improvement across a variety of situations. New drivers lag further behind experienced drivers when in difficult situations. Drivers benefit from accumulating neighborhood-specific experience, which affects how they search for their next customers.