PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Yizhen Gu AU - Naijia Guo AU - Jing Wu AU - Ben Zou TI - Home Location Choices and the Gender Commute Gap AID - 10.3368/jhr.1020-11263R2 DP - 2021 Nov 15 TA - Journal of Human Resources PG - 1020-11263R2 4099 - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2021/11/03/jhr.1020-11263R2.short 4100 - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2021/11/03/jhr.1020-11263R2.full AB - Using administrative records of home mortgages in Beijing, we show that dual-income households systematically choose to buy homes that are closer to the wife’s workplace. The wife’s commute from the newly purchased home is on average 11% shorter by distance than the husband’s. We estimate a discrete home location choice model and find that households derive substantially larger disutility from the wife’s commute than from the husband’s. Through the lens of a simple collective household model, we show evidence that gender commute gap reflects the intra-household division of labor and relative bargaining power.