Beck, MJ and Hess, S orcid.org/0000-0002-3650-2518 (2016) Willingness to Accept Longer Commutes for Better Salaries: Understanding the Differences Within and Between Couples. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 91. pp. 1-16. ISSN 0965-8564
Abstract
This paper reports on an analysis aiming to understand differences across individual people in their willingness to accept increased commuting time in return for higher salary, using Hierarchical Bayes (HB) analysis of a dataset collected in Sweden. We find that socio-demographic and attitudinal differences are significant in explaining the variations in values of time for individuals, in particular income, who drives when carpooling and hours worked per week. Additionally we also examine the values of individuals when their choices also impact on the salary and commute of their partner, finding that incomes, income differentials, driving behaviour when carpooling, division of housework and car user decisions significantly explain the values assigned to others and variations in an individual’s own values once their partner is affected. The overall richness of the results reflect the benefits that posterior analysis can bring, and highlight the computational efficiency of Bayesian methods in producing such conditionals at an individual level.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016, Elsevier. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Hierarchical Bayes; Commute; Willingness to accept; Group choice; Residential choice |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EU - European Union 615596 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 22 Jul 2016 11:21 |
Last Modified: | 22 Dec 2017 01:38 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2016.05.019 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.tra.2016.05.019 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:102776 |