Table 5.

Paid leave policy changes, by baseline offer (N = 297).

	Among firms with NO baseline (2016) policy, Proportion with New Policy1						Among firms WITH baseline (2016) policy, Proportion that Expanded2
Characteristics	(N = 183)						(N = 114)
	SF, weighted %	Non-SF, weighted %	Adjusted difference	Cluster p-value	R2	N	SF, weighted %	Non-SF, weighted %	Adjusted difference	Cluster p-value	R2	N
All employers	0.62	0.22	0.40	*	0.2	177	0.33	0.18	0.17	+	0.1	108
Employer size
20–99 employees	0.53	0.20	0.33	+	0.12	91	0.30	0.14	0.15		0.1	48
100+ employees	0.72	0.26	0.47	*	0.2	86	0.36	0.23	0.20		0.2	60
Industry
Low-wage3	0.51	0.28	0.14		0.26	61	0.36	0.13	0.48	*	0.4	25
Non-low wage	0.67	0.19	0.48	*	0.3	116	0.32	0.20	0.14		0.1	83
High part time share
>75th percentile	0.77	0.21	0.52	+	0.39	42	0.47	0.18	0.02		0.5	23
<=75th percentile	0.59	0.23	0.36	*	0.2	135	0.31	0.19	0.13		0.1	85
Female share
>75th percentile	0.50	0.21	0.43	*	0.39	34	0.09	0.24	−0.25		0.5	23
<= 75th percentile	0.66	0.22	0.42	*	0.2	143	0.42	0.14	0.29	*	0.2	85
Share new (hired in past year)
>75th percentile	0.62	0.24	0.38	+	0.26	38	0.45	0.17	0.38	+	0.4	32
<= 75th percentile	0.62	0.22	0.43	**	0.2	139	0.29	0.19	0.09		0.1	76
Chain of establishments4
Yes	0.67	0.21	0.48	*	0.3	103	0.34	0.24	0.09		0.1	69
No	0.53	0.23	0.29	+	0.12	74	0.34	0.11	0.12		0.2	39

+p<0.1; *p<0.05; **p<0.01; ***p<0.001.

Source: Bay Area Parental Leave Survey of 2018 Employers.

Note. SF=San Francisco; CI = confidence interval. ¹New policy includes implementing a new policy or starting to provide pay; ²Expansion defined as increasing wage replacement rate, increasing duration of paid leave, or expanding eligibility; ³Low-wage industries include accommodation and food services and selected retail; ⁴Chain defined as having >1 establishment per employer. Employers that reported implementing a new paid parental leave policy or starting to provide pay were characterized as having a “new policy”; employers that expanded eligibility to employees who did not previously qualify for paid parental leave or increased the wage replacement rate or leave duration were characterized as having an “expanded policy”; employers that did not make any of these changes but reported currently offering paid leave were characterized as having an “existing policy”; and employers that did not make any changes and reported no current paid leave policy were characterized as having “no policy”. Coefficients, confidence intervals, and p-values from weighted linear probability models using wild cluster bootstrapping to account for county-level clustering. Adjusted difference models control for employer characteristics (employer size, industry, part-time share, female share, share newly hired, and whether the establishment was part of a chain).