Commuting, Gender and Children

Malte Borghorst; Ismir  Mulalic; Jos Van Ommeren

doi:10.1016/j.jue.2024.103709

Commuting, Gender and Children

Malte Borghorst
, Ismir Mulalic
, Jos Van Ommeren^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Economics

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Abstract

We demonstrate that women with children are much more likely to leave their job when they have a long commute, which is not true for men. Interpreting these results through the lens of a dynamic search model, we demonstrate that commuting costs increase substantially for women after they have children. For women with children, a 12 kilometer increase in commuting distance induces costs equivalent to about 20% of their wage.

Original language	English
Article number	103709
Journal	Journal of Urban Economics
Volume	144
Number of pages	22
ISSN	0094-1190
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2024.103709
Publication status	Published - Nov 2024

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Published online: 04 November 2024.

Keywords

Commuting
Children
Gender

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