@techreport{Stutzer2004Stress,
abstract = {People spend a lot of time commuting and often find it a burden. According to economics, the
burden of commuting is chosen when compensated either on the labor or on the housing
market so that individuals? utility is equalized. However, in a direct test of this strong notion of
equilibrium, we find that people with longer commuting time report systematically lower
subjective well-being. Additional empirical analyses do not find institutional explanations of
the empirical results that commuters systematically incur losses. We discuss several
possibilities of an extended model of human behavior able to explain this ?commuting
paradox?.},
author = {Alois Stutzer and Bruno S. Frey},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {R41; D61; D12; 330; location theory; commuting; compensating variation; subjective well-being; Pendelverkehr; Lebensqualit\"{a}t; Standorttheorie; Kompensationsl\"{o}sung; Theorie},
language = {eng},
number = {1278},
title = {Stress That Doesn't Pay : The Commuting Paradox},
type = {IZA Discussion paper series},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20544},
year = {2004}
}
