You've come a long way, baby. Husbands' commuting time and family labour supply

Francesca Carta and Marta De Philippis

Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2018, vol. 69, issue C, 25-37

Abstract: This paper explores the effects of husbands’ commuting time on wives’ employment and family time allocation. We develop a unitary family model, and we show that when market services are imperfect substitutes of home produced goods, a longer husband’s commuting time might decrease his wife’s employment and increase his own working hours. We estimate these effects using employer-induced changes in home-to-work distances. We find that a 1% increase in the husband’s commuting distance reduces his wife’s employment probability by 0.016 percentage points and has a slight positive effect on his own working hours. The effects are stronger for couples with children and for highly educated husbands.

Keywords: Household production; Gender economics; Time allocation and labour supply; Commuting time (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D13 J16 J21 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2017.12.004

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