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| Type | Journal Article |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Stress that doesn’t pay: the commuting paradox |
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| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published in final form |
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| Journal Title | Scandinavian Journal of Economics |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Geographical Reach | international |
| ISSN | 0347-0520 |
| Volume | 110 |
| Number | 2 |
| Page Range | 339 - 366 |
| Date | 2008 |
| Abstract Text | 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’. |
| Digital Object Identifier | 10.1111/j.1467-9442.2008.00542.x |
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| Additional Information | The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com |