Replication data for: Peer Effects in Program Participation

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Gordon B. Dahl; Katrine V. Løken; Magne Mogstad

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Project Citation:

Dahl, Gordon B., Løken, Katrine V., and Mogstad, Magne. Replication data for: Peer Effects in Program Participation. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2014. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/E112834V1

Project Description

Summary: We estimate peer effects in paid paternity leave in Norway using a regression discontinuity design. Coworkers and brothers are 11 and 15 percentage points, respectively, more likely to take paternity leave if their peer was exogenously induced to take up leave. The most likely mechanism is information transmission, including increased knowledge of how an employer will react. The estimated peer effect snowballs over time, as the first peer interacts with a second peer, the second peer with a third, and so on. This leads to long-run participation rates which are substantially higher than would otherwise be expected.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
      J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
      J18 Demographic Economics: Public Policy
      K31 Labor Law
      M52 Personnel Economics: Compensation and Compensation Methods and Their Effects
      Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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