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| Title: | | Stress That Doesn't Pay : The Commuting Paradox  |
| Authors: | | Stutzer, Alois Frey, Bruno S. |
| Issue Date: | | 2004 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion paper series 1278 |
| 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?. |
| Subjects: | | location theory commuting compensating variation subjective well-being |
| JEL: | | R41 D61 D12 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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