TY - JOUR
T1 - New yorkers commute more everywhere
T2 - Contrast effects in the field
AU - Simonsohn, U.
PY - 2006/2
Y1 - 2006/2
N2 - Previous experimental research has shown that people's decisions can be influenced by options they have encountered in the past. This paper uses PSID data to study this phenomenon in the field, by observing how long people commute after moving between cities. It is found, as predicted, that (i) people choose longer commutes in a city they have just moved to, the longer the average commute was in the city they came from, and (ii) when they move again within the new city, they revise their commute length, countering the effect their origin city had on their initial decision.
AB - Previous experimental research has shown that people's decisions can be influenced by options they have encountered in the past. This paper uses PSID data to study this phenomenon in the field, by observing how long people commute after moving between cities. It is found, as predicted, that (i) people choose longer commutes in a city they have just moved to, the longer the average commute was in the city they came from, and (ii) when they move again within the new city, they revise their commute length, countering the effect their origin city had on their initial decision.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=32544447196&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1162/003465306775565747
DO - 10.1162/003465306775565747
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:32544447196
SN - 0034-6535
VL - 88
SP - 1
EP - 9
JO - Review of Economics and Statistics
JF - Review of Economics and Statistics
IS - 1
ER -