Working Papers

Information Constraints and Technology Efficiency: Field Experiments Benchmarking Firms' Website Performance (with Richard Kneller and Cher Li)

Commuting and Residential Mobility: Evidence from the UK (work in progress)

This paper examines the effect of commuting on an individual's residential mobility preference using data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study survey (Understanding Society). Together with the preference to move, the paper also assesses the impact of commuting on the expectation to move. For the identification strategy, I use a change in commuting time for those individuals who stay with the same employer and remain in the same place of residence. The paper finds that commuting increases the individual's intent to relocate and increases the expectation to move. The results contribute to the literature on the effect of commuting on residential choice and the subsequent labour market outcomes. Moreover, understanding the impact of commuting on individuals' preference to relocate has great policy implications, since commuting and the decisions surrounding it are considered as the remedy to local economic problems.