Stress that Doesn't Pay: The Commuting Paradox*. Stutzer, A. & Frey, B. S. The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 110(2):339–366, 2008.
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People spend a lot of time commuting and often find it a burden. According to standard 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 with panel data, we find that people with longer commuting time report systematically lower subjective well-being. This result is robust with regard to a number of alternative explanations. We mention several possibilities of an extended model of human behavior able to explain this “commuting paradox”.
@article{stutzer_stress_2008,
	title = {Stress that {Doesn}'t {Pay}: {The} {Commuting} {Paradox}*},
	volume = {110},
	copyright = {© The editors of the Scandinavian Journal of Economics 2008},
	issn = {1467-9442},
	shorttitle = {Stress that {Doesn}'t {Pay}},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9442.2008.00542.x},
	doi = {10.1111/j.1467-9442.2008.00542.x},
	abstract = {People spend a lot of time commuting and often find it a burden. According to standard 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 with panel data, we find that people with longer commuting time report systematically lower subjective well-being. This result is robust with regard to a number of alternative explanations. We mention several possibilities of an extended model of human behavior able to explain this “commuting paradox”.},
	language = {en},
	number = {2},
	urldate = {2019-11-10},
	journal = {The Scandinavian Journal of Economics},
	author = {Stutzer, Alois and Frey, Bruno S.},
	year = {2008},
	keywords = {D12, D61, Location theory, R41, commuting, compensating variation, subjective well-being},
	pages = {339--366}
}

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