Stutzer, A., &Frey, B. S. (2008). Stress that doesn& #39;t pay: The commuting paradox. Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 110(2), 339-366.
People spend a lot of time commuting and often find it a burden. According to standard economics, the burden of commuting is chosen when compensated either on the labor or on the housing market so that individuals' utility is equalized. However, in a direct test of this strong notion of equilibrium with panel data, we find that people with longer commuting time report systematically lower ...
