The Baby Club: paternity and performance in a high‐pressure setting

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dc.contributor.authorButler, Daviden
dc.contributor.authorButler, Roberten
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-17T12:30:50Z
dc.date.available2024-12-17T12:30:50Z
dc.date.issued2024-12-12en
dc.description.abstractWe offer new insights into fatherhood by asking if the onset of paternity changes workplace productivity. We do this in the well‐monitored and high‐pressure setting of professional football using a novel dataset that matches 115 birth disclosures to the performance of 96 players. Our empirical approach involves specifying a performance equation for a suite of match‐level performance statistics and estimating OLS and Poisson fixed‐effect panel regressions. We find a negative correlation between fatherhood and collaborative performance as measured by expected assists—a player's ability to create goalscoring opportunities. We also report negative effects for the perinatal period for expected assists and passing measures. There is no evidence of performance changes resulting from expectancy news. As negative performance effects are observed in a context of ‘superstar wages’, this raises concerns for high‐pressure labour markets where workers are remunerated less but have low uptake of leave entitlements or where paternity leave is culturally taboo.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationButler, D. and Butler, R. (2024) 'The Baby Club: paternity and performance in a high‐pressure setting', Kyklos. https://doi.org/10.1111/kykl.12429en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/kykl.12429en
dc.identifier.eissn1467-6435en
dc.identifier.issn0023-5962en
dc.identifier.journaltitleKyklosen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/16727
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc.en
dc.relation.ispartofKyklosen
dc.rights© 2024, the Authors. Kyklos is published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided theoriginal work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/en
dc.subjectFatherhooden
dc.subjectPaternityen
dc.subjectWorkplace productivityen
dc.titleThe Baby Club: paternity and performance in a high‐pressure settingen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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