Home Location Choices and the Gender Commute Gap
利用北京住房抵押贷款数据，发现双收入家庭购房时更倾向靠近妻子工作地，妻子通勤距离平均比丈夫短11%，且家庭对妻子通勤的厌恶程度更高，这反映了家庭内部分工与议价能力。
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.<br>