Plausibly Exogenous - Commuting Behavior (08/19/2021)
LHS Variable
Commuting Behavior
RHS Variable
Los Angeles Metro Rail
Source of Exogenous Variation
Interaction of local labor demand shocks — constructed from changes in national
wage and employment levels and ex ante local employment shares by industry — with the distance between tracts to create variation in local economic conditions
- Severen (2020), “Commuting, Labor, and Housing Market Effects of Mass Transportation: Welfare and Identification”