题目：Home Location Choices and the Gender Commute Gap

主讲人：邹奔，密西根州立大学

时间：2020年12月4日，上午10:00 – 11:30

举办方式：线上讲座

Zoom ID:  931 678 9264

参会密码：790971

主讲人简介：Ben Zou is an assistant professor of economics at Michigan State University, where he teaches labor and urban economics. Ben is an empirical microeconomist with research interests in labor economics, urban economics, and economic development. Before joining MSU, Ben received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland at College Park, and BA and MA from Peking University.

Abstract:

Using administrative records of home mortgages in Beijing, we show that households systematically choose to buy new homes that are closer to the wife’s workplace. Compared with the husband’s commute, new homes are on average 11% closer to the wife’s workplace by distance and require 4% less commute time. In terms of a household’s disutility from choosing a particular home, a one log point increase in the wife’s commute distance is equivalent to a 0.5 log point increase in the house price, and a 1.7 log point increase in the husband’s commute distance. Using a collective household model, we show that home location choices and the resulting gender commute differences reflect the intra-household division of labor and differences in bargaining power. We discuss the implications of the observed gender commute gap for the gender pay gap.