Table 5

House Choice and Commute Time

Predicted Commuting Mode
TransitCarModel 1Model 2Model 3
(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)
First-Step Estimation
Diff. in ln commute time (husband – wife)0.13670.17050.12000.11670.1248
(0.0048)(0.0025)(0.0023)(0.0016)(0.0023)
Avg. ln commute time−1.7938−2.3649−2.1227−2.1640−2.1352
(0.0095)(0.0046)(0.0053)(0.0053)(0.0052)
ln dist. to current home−1.1780−1.0761−1.1049−1.0945−1.1011
(0.0042)(0.0017)(0.0021)(0.0020)(0.0021)
lnp × demeaned ln household income0.27110.24650.26010.22020.2594
(0.0149)(0.0043)(0.0060)(0.0033)(0.0059)
lnp × demeaned husband age1.38341.31381.34271.34131.3377
(0.0510)(0.0183)(0.0226)(0.0169)(0.0221)
Second-Step Estimation
lnp−4.318−4.632−4.497−4.517−4.506
(0.640)(0.634)(0.627)(0.627)(0.627)
  • Notes: In Columns 3–5, Models 1–3 corresponds to the three transportation mode choice models (Online Appendix Table C.1). The second-step estimations follow the specification as in Table 4, Column 4. Standard errors in the second step account for arbitrary spatial correlation up to 5 km. Coefficients other than that associated with lnp are suppressed to save space. First-stage F-statistic on the instrumental variable for lnp is 216.