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Home Location Choices and the Gender Commute Gap

Yizhen Gu, Naijia Guo, Jing Wu and Ben Zou
Published online before print November 15, 2021, 1020-11263R2; 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 Chinese University of Hong Kong;
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Jing Wu
*Jing Wu is an associate 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 Michigan State University;
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