Peer Effects in Program Participation

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Dahl, Gordon B.; Loken, Katrine V.; Mogstad, Magne
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California San Diego; University of Bergen; University of London; University College London
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282
• DOI: 10.1257/aer.104.7.2049
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 2049-2074
• 关键词: regression discontinuity designs; student-achievement; incentives; networks; CHOICE; crime

摘要

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.