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Home Location Choices and the Gender Commute Gap

View ORCID ProfileYizhen Gu, View ORCID ProfileNaijia Guo, View ORCID ProfileJing Wu and View ORCID ProfileBen Zou
Journal of Human Resources, March 2024, 59 (2) 545-575; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.1020-11263R2
Yizhen Gu
Yizhen Gu is an associate professor of economics at the HSBC Business School, Peking University ().
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Naijia Guo
Naijia Guo is an assistant professor of economics at the Faculty of Business and Economics, the University of Hong Kong ().
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Jing Wu
Jing Wu is a professor at the Department of Construction Management at Tsinghua University ().
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Ben Zou
Ben Zou is an assistant professor of economics at the Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business, Purdue University ().
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