New Yorkers Commute More Everywhere: Contrast Effects in the Field
利用PSID数据研究人们搬家后通勤时间的变化，发现来自通勤时间较长城市的人在新城市会选择更长的通勤，但再次搬家时会调整。
Previous experimental research has shown that people's decisions can be influenced by options they have encountered in the past. This paper uses PSID data to study this phenomenon in the field, by observing how long people commute after moving between cities. It is found, as predicted, that (i) people choose longer commutes in a city they have just moved to, the longer the average commute was in the city they came from, and (ii) when they move again within the new city, they revise their commute length, countering the effect their origin city had on their initial decision. © 2006 The President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.