Home Location Choices and the Gender Commute Gap
| Autor: | Jing Wu, Ben Zou, Naijia Guo, Yizhen Gu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Economics and Econometrics Polymers and Plastics Strategy and Management media_common.quotation_subject Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Bargaining power Beijing Management of Technology and Innovation Economics Wife Demographic economics Gender gap Business and International Management Division of labour media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Human Resources. :1020-11263R2 |
| ISSN: | 1548-8004 0022-166X |
| DOI: | 10.3368/jhr.1020-11263r2 |
| Popis: | Using administrative records of home mortgages in Beijing, we show that dual-income households systematically choose to buy homes that are closer to the wife’s workplace. The wife’s commute from the newly purchased home is on average 11% shorter by distance than the husband’s. We estimate a discrete home location choice model and find that households derive substantially larger disutility from the wife’s commute than from the husband’s. Through the lens of a simple collective household model, we show evidence that the gender commute gap reflects the intra-household division of labor and relative bargaining power. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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