TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Stutzer, Alois
AU  - Frey, Bruno S.
        TI  - Stress That Doesn't Pay: The Commuting Paradox
        PY  - 2004/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 1278
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp1278
        AB  - 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’.
        KW  - compensating variation
KW  - commuting
KW  - location theory
KW  - subjective well-being
        ER  -