Does commuting matter to subjective well-being?

Arbeitspapier

How and why commuting contributes to our well-being is of considerable importance for transportation policy and planning. This paper analyses the relation between commuting and subjective well-being by considering several cognitive (e.g., satisfaction with family life, leisure, income, work, health) and affective (e.g., happiness, anger, worry, sadness) components of subjective well-being. Fixed-effects models are estimated with German Socio-Economic Panel data for the period 2007 - 2013. In contrast to previous papers in the literature, according to which commuting is bad for overall life satisfaction, we find no evidence that commuting in general is associated with a lower life satisfaction. Rather, it appears that longer commutes are only related to lower satisfaction with particular life domains, especially family life and leisure time. Time spent on housework, child care as well as physical and leisure activities mediate the association between commuting and well-being.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IAAEU Discussion Paper Series in Economics ; No. 07/2017

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Health: General ; General Welfare; Well-Being ; Transportation Economics: General
• Thema: commuting distance ; emotion ; satisfaction ; time use ; well-being

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Lorenz, Olga
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): University of Trier, Institute for Labour Law and Industrial Relations in the European Union (IAAEU)
• (wo): Trier
• (wann): 2017

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/166030
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ