Working Paper: NBER ID: w28672
Authors: Ann P. Bartel; Maya Rossin-Slater; Christopher J. Ruhm; Meredith Slopen; Jane Waldfogel
Abstract: We designed and fielded a survey of New York and Pennsylvania firms to study the impacts of New York's 2018 Paid Family Leave policy on employer outcomes. We match each NY firm to a comparable PA firm and use difference-in-difference models to analyze within-match-pair changes in outcomes. We find that PFL leads to an improvement in employers' rating of their ease of handling long employee absences, concentrated in the first policy year and among firms with 50-99 employees. We also find an increase in employee leave-taking in the second policy year, driven by smaller firms.
Keywords: Paid Family Leave; Employers; New York; Employer Outcomes; Absence Management
JEL Codes: I38; J21; J22; J23; J32; J38
Edges that are evidenced by causal inference methods are in orange, and the rest are in light blue.
| Cause | Effect |
|---|---|
| New York's Paid Family Leave policy (J22) | employers' ratings of ease of handling long employee absences (J22) |
| New York's Paid Family Leave policy (J22) | employee leave-taking (J22) |
| New York's Paid Family Leave policy (J22) | employer ratings of employee performance (M51) |
| employers' ratings of ease of handling long employee absences (J22) | employee leave-taking (J22) |
| New York's Paid Family Leave policy (J22) | employer outcomes (J63) |