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Leave and Let Leave: Workplace Peer Effects in Fathers’ Take-up of Parental Leave

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  • Alessandra Casarico
  • Edoardo Di Porto
  • Joanna Kopinska
  • Salvatore Lattanzio

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Using a reform that increased parental leave generosity, we estimate workplace peer effects in leave-taking, focusing on fathers. Coworker fathers are more likely to take leave when exposed to more peer fathers affected by the reform. Effects are stronger in establishments with higher social capital and pre-reform leave use. We explain our findings showing that incumbent coworkers drive the effects, same-gender peer influences exceed cross-gender ones, the strongest peer effects run from higher- to lower-ranked occupations, and career penalties are absent for peer fathers. Peer effects extend to coworker fathers' partners, less so to coworker mothers' partners.

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  • Alessandra Casarico & Edoardo Di Porto & Joanna Kopinska & Salvatore Lattanzio, 2025. "Leave and Let Leave: Workplace Peer Effects in Fathers’ Take-up of Parental Leave," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series 25126, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin).
    • Handle: RePEc:crm:wpaper:25126
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    Cited by:

    1. Sona Badalyan, 2025. "Peer Effects in Old-Age Employment Among Women," CERGE-EI Working Papers wp800, The Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economics Institute, Prague.
    2. Maria De Paola & Roberto Nisticò & Vincenzo Scoppa, 2024. "Workplace Peer Effects in Fertility Decisions," CSEF Working Papers 714, Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF), University of Naples, Italy, revised 01 Sep 2025.
    3. Sturm, Patrick, 2025. "Workplace peer effects in retirement," W.E.P. - Würzburg Economic Papers 112, University of Würzburg, Department of Economics.

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    JEL classification:

    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J18 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Public Policy
    • K31 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - Labor Law
    • M52 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Compensation and Compensation Methods and Their Effects

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