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Home Location Choices and the Gender Commute Gap

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  • Yizhen Gu
  • Naijia Guo
  • Jing Wu
  • Ben Zou

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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 percent 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 gender commute gap reflects the intrahousehold division of labor and relative bargaining power.

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  • Yizhen Gu & Naijia Guo & Jing Wu & Ben Zou, 2024. "Home Location Choices and the Gender Commute Gap," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 59(2), pages 545-575.
    • Handle: RePEc:uwp:jhriss:v:59:y:2024:i:2:p:545-575
    Note: DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.1020-11263R2
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    JEL classification:

    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • R21 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Housing Demand
    • J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply

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