Does Commuting Affect Health?
利用英国家庭追踪调查数据，分析通勤时间对主观健康、客观健康、健康行为和医疗利用的影响，发现通勤时间越长主观健康越差、看医生次数越多，且对女性和开车通勤者影响更大。
This paper analyzes the relation between commuting time and health in the UK. I focus on four different types of health outcomes: subjective health measures, objective health measures, health behavior, and healthcare utilization. Fixed effect models are estimated with British Household Panel Survey data. I find that whereas objective health and health behavior are barely affected by commuting time, subjective health measures are clearly lower for people who commute longer. A longer commuting time is, moreover, related to more visits to the general practitioner. Effects turn out to be more pronounced for women and for commuters driving a car. For women, commuting time is also negatively related to regular exercise and positively to calling in sick. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.