Sex Differences in Urban Commuting Patterns

This paper takes a new look, both theoretical and empirical, at the general question of what determines the pattern of urban workers' commuting journeys and at the specific question of how women workers' commuting journeys differ from those of men. Commuting journey length for urban workers has proved difficult to model because it stands at the intersection of urban and labor economic theories concerning the spatial location patterns of jobs and housing. Urban economists view workers as having fixed job locations at the center of the city and being compensated for longer commuting journeys by lower housing prices in the suburbs. Labor economists, in contrast, tend