“…have some inherent differences that should be accounted for when merging them into one file. (Poterba, 1990), (Zhang, McMullen, Valluri, & Nakahara, 2009), (Moghadam, 2011), (McMullen, Zhang, & Nakahara, 2010), (Litman, 1999), (Lindsey, Schofer, Durango-Cohen, & Gray, 2011), (Kayser, 2000), (Fullerton & West, 2002), (Busse, Knittel, & Zettelmeyer, 2009), (Bento, Goulder, Jacobsen, & von Haefen, 2009), (West, 2004), (Larsen, Burris, Pearson, & Ellis, 2012). Also, the author has excluded 7,205 observations of HHs with zero vehicles from the Household File, as these HHs did not generate observations on fuel efficiency and VMT that are of interest in this study (McMullen, Zhang, & Nakahara, 2010).…”