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Laura Boudreau

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Asst Prof of Economics @Columbia_Biz & @The_IGC . Working conditions, labor rights, & firm productivity + multinationals' interventions in developing countries.

New York, NY

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Laura Boudreau

2 months

Thrilled to see this paper coming out in Econometrica! I'm grateful to the editor and the referees and to my mentors for helping me to realize its full potential.

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Econometrica

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I run an RCT on occupational safety & health (OSH) committees, the key worker voice institution for workplace health & safety. They have small, positive effects on OSH, with no evidence they are costly in terms of wages, employment, or labor productivity

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Laura Boudreau

2 years

It has been very saddening but not altogether surprising to follow #econtwitter ’s current #metoo moment. A short 🧵 based on my experience conducting research related to reporting of (sexual) harassment.

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Michela Tincani

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2 years

Seems like a good time to retweet this paper: "Monitoring harassment in organizations", by @LauraBoudreau @SylvainChassang Ada Gonzales-Torres @rachelmheath

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Laura Boudreau

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I am looking for a full-time RA to help me to manage 2 large scale field experiments that I currently have ongoing or will have ongoing in #Bangladesh in the next several months. There will also be data cleaning and analysis in Stata. Apply: . #EconTwitter

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Laura Boudreau

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A little late on sharing, but not one bit less enthusiastic: I am thrilled to report that I will join the Economics Division @Columbia_Biz as an assistant professor in 2020 after a one-year postdoc @ColumbiaChazen Institute for Global Business. So excited for this next chapter!

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Laura Boudreau

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Teaser alert: Silence does != no problems. We find that providing plausible deniability about reporting through exogenous garbling increases reporting of workplace harassment by 46-288%, with a larger increase for more sensitive types of harassment.

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NBER

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Harassment in organizations: Is it a good sign when no one complains? Plausible deniability liberates victims' voice in surveys, from @LauraBoudreau @SylvainChassang @adagt3 and @rachelmheath

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Laura Boudreau

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🧵on my, @juliacajalgrand , & Rocco Macchiavello's Journal of Economics Perspectives piece -- out today!

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Francesco (Ciccio) Amodio

1 year

New in JEP, straight to my syllabus! @juliacajalgr @LauraBoudreau

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Laura Boudreau

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Interested in industrial relations, firm capabilities, unions, gender, or governance mechanisms in developing countries? Or maybe vaguely interested in labor and development economics? Come work with me as a pre-doctoral research associate @Columbia_Biz !

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Laura Boudreau

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Industrial policy is back on the agenda, but the knowledge base to guide it is underdeveloped. Join an interdisciplinary group of researchers to discuss what is known and new ideas - pls submit your papers!

@EricVerhoogen

Eric Verhoogen

1 year

Call for papers! Conference on industrial policy @Columbia , Nov. 10, 2023. Keynote: Michael Kremer. Details here: Submit by Sept. 15, 11:59pm EDT. Co-hosts: Center for Political Economy, @Columbia_CDEP , @ColumbiaSIPA Tech & Innovation Initiative.

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Laura Boudreau

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*New working paper* “Monitoring Harassment in Organizations,” w/ @SylvainChassang , @adagt3 , and @RachelMHeath . I'm excited to present it tomorrow at #NBERSI Personnel @ 2:40 pm! Watch here: . Also, a thread about our paper. 1/13

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Laura Boudreau

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In our research on union leaders in Myanmar, we find that on union leaders are positively selected & cultivate collective action in the labor movement through a coordinating role. So fun to chat abt this work w/ my fav @VirginiaMinni . Thanks @faculti for the opportunity!

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Faculti

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Social movements are catalysts for crucial institutional changes. To succeed, they must coordinate members’ views and actions. Laura Boudreau @LauraBoudreau @Columbia_Biz and Virginia Minni @VirginiaMinni @ChicagoBooth discuss union leaders within #Myanmar 's burgeoning labor

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Laura Boudreau

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Eradicating sexual harassment from econ requires taking systematic approaches to (1) increase the benefits by having material actions be taken against perpetrators and (2) design reporting systems that reduce reputation/retaliation cost (& are robust to strategic misreporting).

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@LauraBoudreau

Laura Boudreau

2 years

Theory predicts that providing plausible deniability through garbling can increase reporting of sensitive info. We evaluate this in a real-world setting & find large effects on workers' reporting of harassment. We also consider other ways to increase reporting-more in the paper!

@PrincetonEcon

Princeton Economics

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Read @LauraBoudreau , @SylvainChassang ( #PrincetonU ), @adagt3 , and @RachelMHeath on how "hard garbling" survey schemes can increase worker willingness to report harassment:

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Laura Boudreau

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From studying people’s reporting decisions (and being a woman in the field), my sense is that people rarely come forward because the costs are enormous relative to the benefits. E.G., see @abicadams @EmilyNix100 @ningzhang0927 and @KristiinaHuttu2 's important work on the costs.

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@LauraBoudreau

Laura Boudreau

5 years

Extremely delighted to be interviewed about my research on multinational buyers' enforcement of labor law in #Bangladesh on @vox_dev talks! Fellow podcast fans may understand! Podcast is up!

@vox_dev

VoxDev

5 years

Can multinational buyers provide their suppliers in developing countries with incentives to comply with local labour laws? @LauraBoudreau describes how an intervention in #Bangladesh led to significantly improved compliance & safety: @Columbia_Biz

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Laura Boudreau

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When deciding whether to report (sexual) harassment, people weigh the expected benefits of reporting, which depend on the likelihood and the meaningfulness of the action taken in response, against the expected costs, in particular the retaliation and reputational costs.

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@LauraBoudreau

Laura Boudreau

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My sense is that in academia, the more fundamental challenge is (1): changing organizations' policies & professional norms so that harassment is appropriately penalized. This requires strong political will by the powerful and widespread support/enforcement by the field.

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Laura Boudreau

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Coming soon: Handy @vox_dev lit on how trade interacts w/ frictions particular to developing countries. One that I care a lot about: How weak institutions may constrain trade, through contract enforcement, but also regulation & tariff evasion. Honored to contribute!

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VoxDev

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We are excited to announce that we are releasing three new VoxDevLit’s in the coming months. The first of these provides an up-to-date summary of issues at the intersection of international trade & development, and will be released on Thursday October 27th.

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Laura Boudreau

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On (2), my collaborators and I hope that our research can help us to learn about the potential of reporting mechanisms including garbling information to provide plausible deniability (this paper) and using reporting escrows to coordinate reporting by multiple victims (ongoing).

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Laura Boudreau

2 years

While designing reporting systems that increase transmission of sensitive information in equilibrium is *hard,* we have theory to guide us and increasing empirical evidence on their efficacy.

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@LauraBoudreau

Laura Boudreau

3 years

We need a Country Manager! Come lead the strategy for the @The_IGC #Bangladesh team and be the bridge between senior policymakers and researchers.

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Mushfiq Mobarak

3 years

We are hiring at @The_IGC #Bangladesh . please spread the word:

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Laura Boudreau

2 years

Honored to part of the fantastic line-up of presenters & papers at the @WiEMecon conference! Thank you to the organizers on such an amazing event. More on our new WP on information mechanisms to increase reporting of harassment in my recent 🧵!

@AnneKaring

Anne Karing

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Kicking off Day 2 of our inaugural @WiEMecon conference! @LauraBoudreau presenting her research on detecting harassment in firms 💥 #WomenInEconomics @BeckerFriedman

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Laura Boudreau

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Very neat paper using regression discontinuity design to show that monitoring by @Gap alone doesn't affect labor standards. Monitoring + incentives, on the other hand, causes supplier factories to substantially improve practices.

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Alice Evans

5 years

Global buyers often turn a blind eye to labour violations But after Rana Plaza, @Gap was hit by bad publicity It reorganised: sourcing more from factories with better labour conditions Factories responded to this incentive by improving workers’ rights

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Laura Boudreau

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Under typical reporting systems, most harassment victims are silent or forced to go public. Under monitoring using hard garbling, orgs get early info on issues but keep control of how to respond. Read @PrincetonEcon 's summary of our paper to learn more!

Monitoring Harassment in Organizations

Partnering with a large garment manufacturer in Bangladesh, researchers found that secure survey designs that ensure the plausible deniability of responses to sensitive questions can help uncover...

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Laura Boudreau

5 years

For me, the most moving part of this panel was their commitment to support grad student #devecon research . All donated their winnings, which together w a large donation from the Weiss family, will dramatically expand access to grant funds for phd students.

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Noam Angrist

5 years

"A prize for the whole community" Great panel moderated by ⁦ @seema_econ @ Weiss Fund conference⁩. Reflections from ⁦ @NobelPrize ⁩ winners Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee & Michael Kremer ⁦⁦ @HarvardEcon ⁩ ⁦⁦ @MITEcon ⁩ ⁦ @JPAL ⁩ ⁦ @poverty_action ⁩

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Laura Boudreau

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Register now for our conference on New Thinking in Industrial Policy, Nov 10 @ Columbia: . 2 keynotes - Erica Fuchs & Michael Kremer - and a fascinating set of presenters & panel members who are sure to spark engaging conversations.

@EricVerhoogen

Eric Verhoogen

1 year

Call for papers! Conference on industrial policy @Columbia , Nov. 10, 2023. Keynote: Michael Kremer. Details here: Submit by Sept. 15, 11:59pm EDT. Co-hosts: Center for Political Economy, @Columbia_CDEP , @ColumbiaSIPA Tech & Innovation Initiative.

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Laura Boudreau

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Calling talented Bangladeshis with an interest in economics, and a curiosity to support and to engage in research, and a drive to see all Bangladeshis prosper. We have exciting plans for @The_IGC #Bangladesh in the works!

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Mushfiq Mobarak

3 years

We are recruiting a country economist for @The_IGC #Bangladesh , to work with @imran_matin , @LauraBoudreau , me. Apply here:

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Laura Boudreau

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The past 2 weeks in Bangladesh have been horrifying: a brutal crackdown on protesters seeking govt reform w/ hundreds killed, deployment of the army & shoot-on-sight orders, near complete communication shut down, and nationwide curfew. Bangladeshis deserve so much better.

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Mushfiq Mobarak

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This is Bangladesh. July 2024. We deserve better than this.

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Laura Boudreau

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Catch our ⚡️lightning⚡️round talk @ NBER Dev SI on union leaders' roles in organizing workers in the run-up to a nat'l min wage adjustment in Myanmar! w/ @VirginiaMinni , Rocco Macchiavello, and Mari Tanaka. Video , timestamp= 2:48:00.

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Laura Boudreau

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Research policy brief about how multinational buyers can improve their suppliers’ compliance with local labor laws in developing countries. Thanks, @ColumbiaChazen , for summarizing the key policy implications of my work!

@ColumbiaChazen

Chazen Institute

@ColumbiaChazen

5 years

Multinational buyers play a critical role in improving global workplace safety, finds research from Chazen Postdoctoral Fellow @LauraBoudreau .

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Laura Boudreau

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Wonderful day for #devecon ! Three trailblazers who inspire us to do socially valuable, rigorous research to support evidenced-based policymaking. Incredible that they are in the midst of their careers and are being recognized with the #NobelPrize . So energizing!

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The Nobel Prize

5 years

BREAKING NEWS: The 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.” #NobelPrize

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We find that "hard garbling" - automatically recording a random subset of reports as complaints to provide plausible deniability - substantially increases workers' willingness to report harassment. HG may be broadly useful to support reporting of sensitive info -more on VoxDev!

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VoxDev

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🆕 Providing plausible deniability empowers workers to report harassment. Today on VoxDev, @LauraBoudreau ( @Columbia_Biz @The_IGC ), Sylvain Chassang ( @PrincetonEcon ), @adagt3 ( @bengurionu ) & @rachelmheath ( @UW ) outline their work in #Bangladesh :

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Laura Boudreau

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#COVID19 continues to challenge #Bangladesh ’s RMG sector. As 🇧🇩 prepares to come out of lockdown, I’m sharing my work with Farria Naeem ( @The_IGC ) on its effects on RMG producers in 2020, incl. major buyers' responses, from a representative survey of @brandbgmea members. 1/11

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Laura Boudreau

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Thanks, @EmilyNix100 , wonderful to present our research @usc_econ and to discuss it w/ you & your colleagues. We discussed how improved reporting mechs -> more informative statistics of harassment that help identify appropriate policy responses. Take-aways from our setting: [1/6]

@EmilyNix100

Emily Nix

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There is increasing recognition that inappropriate behavior in the workplace is pervasive. Moreover, based on my work w/ @abicadams @ningzhang0927 & @KristiinaHuttu2 we know these events are very costly to victims and wider firm. See thread below. [2/3]

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Laura Boudreau

1 year

Adding my name to the very long list of people on Twitter who are very excited for Cristóbal to join us at @Columbia_Biz !

@cristobalotero

Cristóbal Otero

@cristobalotero

1 year

O Captain! My Captain! In July 2023, the ship will finally dock at the Columbia Business School, and I, a humble sailor, will join as an assistant professor in economics ✍️

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In certain GVCs, multinational buyers claim to support increased worker participation in 3rd party suppliers' decision-making. Are these empty promises, or do they have bite? A lively discussion on my research on this Q around health and safety in Bangladeshi apparel w/ @ChadBown

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Laura Boudreau

8 months

Pondering your 2024 conference submissions during the holiday break? Submit your work on institutions and organizations to @SIOEcon '24 June 27-29 @HarrisPolicy . It will be fantastic!

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Scott Gehlbach

8 months

Hi all - Here is the call for papers for SIOE 2024, which I am organizing @UChicago next summer, June 27–29. All sessions will be at the beautiful Keller Center @HarrisPolicy , with a gala cruise on Lake Michigan + blues band the last night. Apply!

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Laura Boudreau

4 years

Thrilled to join Chazen's community of @Columbia_Biz scholars working on global issues!

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Chazen Institute

@ColumbiaChazen

4 years

📣 BIG WELCOME to our newest #ChazenSeniorScholars , @ProfAkinola and @LauraBoudreau !

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Laura Boudreau

2 years

Honored that @beegle_kathleen discussed our paper! As Kathleen alludes to, we hope the survey methods we consider, hard garbling, rapport building, and limiting PII - while all carrying a cost - can generate better data that results in better policies to address harassment.

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David McKenzie

2 years

Measuring harassment in the workplace: @beegle_kathleen summarizes work by @LauraBoudreau @SylvainChassang @adagt3 & @RachelMHeath on testing methods to better elicit sensitive information such as "hard garbling" where some responses are randomly flipped

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Laura Boudreau

4 years

Feeling #thankful for my #Bangladeshi research collaborators and field teams as my first two post-COVID (remote) field projects get underway. I'm very lucky to work with such capable, motivated teams. @kwrahman @ Farria Naeem @Ferdausi5 @BIGD_BRACU

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Laura Boudreau

5 years

Very excited about @suannaoh 's thought-provoking JMP. Carefully designed experiment that helps us understand how one's identity, or concept of self, can dramatically affect labor supply.

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Matt Lowe

5 years

Love this paper on caste identity and labour supply by Suanna Oh (): almost half of the workers refuse to do a 10-minute caste-incongruent task even when offered 10x their daily wage!

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Laura Boudreau

3 years

Happy 50th bday, #Bangladesh ! I continue to be impressed by this country's progress on many poverty indicators. Many challenges remain, though, and I'm glad to be able to help to bring evidence to bear on them. More soon on COVID's effects on BD's apparel factories and workers!

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Laura Boudreau

28 days

The New Thinking in Industrial Policy Conference is back! Last year's included a fascinating set of speakers & topics. I am sure this year's will be similarly or more productive & engaging. @Columbia on Nov 1-2. Submit your papers! 👇

@EricVerhoogen

Eric Verhoogen

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The @Columbia New Thinking in Industrial Policy Conference is back, Nov. 1-2, 2024. Please submit papers: Deadline Sept 13. Conference page: Links to fab 2023 version below. Joint effort of @Policy_Dialogue , @Columbia_CDEP , CPE.

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Laura Boudreau

1 year

Complex governance issues around sustainability arise when supply chains span the globe. Addressing them is key to forging more a climate-resilient, equitable, and stable future. But we still know so little - so I am very glad to be part of this discussion. Pls submit your paper!

@kielinstitute

Kiel Institute (IfW Kiel)

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📢Call for Papers: The Research Network Sustainable Global Supply Chains is looking for papers on sustainability in global supply chains with a focus on impacts in developing countries. 🗓️ Conference in Sept. in Kiel (& online) 🎙️ Keynote Speaker @LauraBoudreau ( @Columbia_Biz

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Laura Boudreau

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Join us @SIOEcon 2021 this Friday, 11:10-12:40 ET, for a session on personnel, labor institutions, and development! I will present on union leaders’ role in building consensus and overcoming collective action problems, joint w/ Rocco Macchiavello, @VirginiaMinni , and Mari Tanaka

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Laura Boudreau

4 years

Proud to march in solidarity with many thousands of New Yorkers this week. Not another black life. Powerful, peaceful, ready to make change. #BlackLivesMattter #nyc #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd

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Laura Boudreau

3 years

Conducting policy-relevant, applied micro research on urbanization, energy, climate resilience, structural transformation, and closest to my heart, inclusive and resilient jobs?! Focusing on #Bangladesh or interested to do so? Apply for @The_IGC funding now! Deadline is Nov. 14!

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Mushfiq Mobarak

3 years

We have a new @The_IGC grant program to support policy-relevant research in Bangladesh:

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Laura Boudreau

9 months

GVCs have aided developing countries' growth, but weak institutions in these settings raise complex issues in cross-border trade and the domestic chain. Today on VoxDev Talks, my coauthors @juliacajalgr & Rocco Macchiavello discuss these based on our recent JEP piece! 🎧 now!

@vox_dev

VoxDev

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🆕 Global value chains and development. Today on VoxDevTalks, @juliacajalgr @GVAGrad & Rocco Macchiavello @LSEManagement @LSEnews discuss research on coffee & garment supply chains w/ @timsvengali + outline the costs & benefits of GVCs for development:

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Laura Boudreau

2 years

As there seems to be interest in this tweet (which is encouraging!), retweeting my original thread on our paper on survey methods designed to monitor harassment in organizational settings.

@LauraBoudreau

Laura Boudreau

2 years

*New working paper* “Monitoring Harassment in Organizations,” w/ @SylvainChassang , @adagt3 , and @RachelMHeath . I'm excited to present it tomorrow at #NBERSI Personnel @ 2:40 pm! Watch here: . Also, a thread about our paper. 1/13

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Laura Boudreau

5 years

Mixed feelings on the final day of my final visit to #Bangladesh as a phd student. 6 years ago today #RanaPlaza took the lives of nearly 1,150 workers. A somber, powerful reminder of the need for more #DevEcon research on working conditions & job quality in developing countries.

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Laura Boudreau

5 years

Thank you, #NBERSI19 participants, and in particular @danielascur , for the constructive discussion of my paper yesterday!

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Dany Bahar 🌎

5 years

Just saw a great paper by @LauraBoudreau looking at improvement on labor safety using a RCT. Paper here #NBERSI19

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Laura Boudreau

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It's a hopeful, critical juncture in 🇧🇩 now that Sheikh Hasina’s govt stepped down. Show solidarity with Bangladeshis: demand the US govt & int'l community support peaceful caretaker rule, the emergence of new political parties, & democratic elections.

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Laura Boudreau

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The IGC Bangladesh team encourages proposals in all priority topics, but are especially looking to build in energy & environment and state capacity. We also have an exciting data-unlocking initiative in progress - reach out to us w/ questions! And please apply (by Sept 30)!

@The_IGC

International Growth Centre

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The IGC #callforproposals is now open 🟢 We welcome research proposals on #sustainable economic growth in low- and middle-income countries across four themes: 1️⃣ Firms, trade and productivity 2️⃣ State effectiveness 3️⃣ Cities 4️⃣ Energy and environment

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Laura Boudreau

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And I'm excited to meet the @LUBSEconDept community and to present our paper on union leaders' roles in coordinating workers' views and their collective actions in relation to the min wage in Myanmar. Paper available here: !

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@LUBSEconDept

LUBS Economics Department

2 years

We are excited to announce that Assistant Professor Laura Boudreau ( @LauraBoudreau ) from @Columbia_Biz will join us online to discuss 'Union Leaders: Experimental Evidence From Myanmar' Please register to attend:

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Laura Boudreau

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Project 1 is w/ @adagt3 and @SylvainChassang & project 2 is w/ @rachelmheath . Fluent Bangla speakers strongly preferred. Please send interested parties my way!

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Laura Boudreau

3 years

Even better, it's actually with the wonderful @cailin_slattery and Ashley Swanson!

@predoc_org

PREDOC.org

3 years

Staff associate position open with @LauraBoudreau and Ashley Swanson @Columbia_Biz working in microeconomics, industrial organization, public finance. Apply at

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Laura Boudreau

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#Bangladesh 's garment sector drew many women into its labor force, but its female LFP rate has been stagnant in recent years, and even declining in urban areas. @The_IGC Country Economist Farria Naeem makes an interesting case for the potential for more inclusive post-COVID LF.

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International Growth Centre

3 years

Post- #COVID19 recovery in #Bangladesh ’s🇧🇩 readymade garment industry, one of the largest in the country, could lead to increased inclusivity thanks to external market pressures, writes Farria Naeem in a new blog for #IWD2021 :

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Laura Boudreau

5 years

Thanks to organizers of today’s #ASSA2020 session on development issues in #Bangladesh ! Highly recommend all papers that were presented. Also loved meeting a wider community of researchers interested in BD. Thanks @Abu_Shonchoy for the thoughtful discussion of my paper!

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Laura Boudreau

5 years

Thank you, @ColumbiaChazen ! Tim Phillips @timsvengali of @vox_dev Talks asks thoughtful and engaging questions!

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Chazen Institute

@ColumbiaChazen

5 years

Congrats to @LauraBoudreau for this fascinating interview with @voxdev . Definitely worth a listen!

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Laura Boudreau

2 years

One of the highlights of my trip to 🇧🇩was discussing my ongoing body of collaborative work with @BIGD_bracu with its excellent staff and researchers. And with so much in progress, many more interesting discussions to be had in the future!

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BRAC Institute of Governance and Development

2 years

Today @BIGD_bracu , @LauraBoudreau of @Columbia_Biz & @The_IGC presented on “buyer relationships, workers’ health & well-being, & firms’ competitiveness in #Bangladesh ’s apparel sector”, sharing findings from recent research, e.g., the economic effects of #COVID19 on #RMG workers.

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Laura Boudreau

5 years

For my first-ever Throwback Thursday social media post, I am reflecting on how rewarding it was to lead a @caleconwomen student-run search for female and URM junior job market candidates while at @Berkeley . Sharing @caleconwomen 's process (when I participated).

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Laura Boudreau

2 years

I don’t want to wish away the summer, but I’m so excited to present our new working paper, “Monitoring Harassment in Organizations” at this conf and to meet so many talented women working in empirical micro! Paper available here:

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Women in Empirical Micro

2 years

Day 2 talks will see @LauraBoudreau , @BancalariA , @Jaeheeasy , @TamarOostrom , @BarbaraBiasi , @caroartc , @urs_schaede , @DijanaZet , @pauliecalvo , @El_Guarnieri , @adi_shany , @EDerenoncourt and @Semenova1Vira !

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Laura Boudreau

4 years

Organizations seeking to protect employees from #COVID19 can use policies that let employees report potential exposure and self-isolate while staying safe from stigma or retaliation. @SylvainChassang and I explain in our @HarvardBiz article

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Laura Boudreau

5 years

Insightful thread on Bangladesh’s economic development relative to South Asian neighbors! It’s an interesting question how Bangladesh’s comparative advantage of low-wage, largely unskilled labor will fare in the longer-term as garments operations (slowly) become more mechanized.

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Mushfiq Mobarak

5 years

My thoughts on Bangladesh’s economic progress relative to India/Pakistan, in response to @AtifRMian 's question posed to me. 13-tweet thread follows.[Warning: these thoughts are of Twitter-length & depth, not the level at which academics normally engage on such complex questions]

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Laura Boudreau

8 months

@EricVerhoogen putting me to shame on acronyms (I had to google ICYMI), but agreed that our conference on New Thinking in Industrial Policy was fabulous, and the video is well worth watching! Check it out ⬇️!

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Eric Verhoogen

8 months

ICYMI: Video from our New Thinking in Industrial Policy conference (Nov. 10) is available on the @ColumbiaSIPA YouTube channel: The talks, turnout (standing room only!), and vibe were fabulous. Some highlights. 🧵 1/N

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Laura Boudreau

5 years

Fascinating JMP: Even when in government, ethnic differences affect minorities' ability to deliver public goods to constituents. But an institutional innovation, a formal complaints technology, empowers minorities and helps them overcome adversity. Thanks, @adagt3 for sharing!

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M.R. Sharan

5 years

#EconTwitter A summary of my Job Market Paper titled "Something to Complain About: How Minority Representatives Overcome Ethnic Differences" (Co-authored with @Chinmayak )

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Laura Boudreau

2 years

@Econ_Sandy @WiEMecon @BeckerFriedman Thanks, @Econ_Sandy ! I'm honored to part of such a fantastic line-up of presenters and papers. More on our new WP on information mechanisms to increase reporting of harassment in my recent 🧵!

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Laura Boudreau

2 years

*New working paper* “Monitoring Harassment in Organizations,” w/ @SylvainChassang , @adagt3 , and @RachelMHeath . I'm excited to present it tomorrow at #NBERSI Personnel @ 2:40 pm! Watch here: . Also, a thread about our paper. 1/13

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Laura Boudreau

3 years

COVID-19 has only magnified our need for insightful research on what works to stimulate the growth of small and medium businesses. Also, on how these business impact the social and economic well-being of their communities and beyond. Apply now!

@The_IGC

International Growth Centre

3 years

The SGB Evidence Fund call for proposals is now open! This joint effort between @The_IGC and @AspenANDE supports collaboration between researchers & practitioners to understand effective ways to promote the development of small and growing businesses. ➡️

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Laura Boudreau

11 months

@alexeble @Columbia_CDEP @EricVerhoogen @myklebest @fabalbav @parijatlal @saritaoreq @palaashbhargava Blah, having so much FOMO right now!

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Laura Boudreau

2 months

@SIOEcon 2024? Join our session on organizational culture and culture change! @AlexiaDelf : "Beyond bonuses: the incentive effect of a prosocial initiative on bankers" @VirginiaMinni : "Meaning at Work" & Wei Cai: "Measuring Organizational Capital" Sat @ 8:45 am in Room Sky Suite.

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Laura Boudreau

1 year

GVCs have helped developing countries grow and lifted many out of poverty. But developing countries importantly differ from industrialized economies, and incomplete contracts and imperfect markets are realities of trading in these settings.

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Laura Boudreau

5 years

"Western companies can apply better labor standards in developing countries and save lives if they only want to." - @StefanoFeltri @StiglerCenter sums up a key policy implication of my research on multinational buyers' enforcement of labors laws in Bangladesh in his review.

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Stigler Center

5 years

"Blaming poor local regulation is not exculpatory anymore," says @StefanoFeltri in a review of @LauraBoudreau 's study on the multinational response to the #RanaPlaza tragedy, which shows companies can improve worker safety without harming competitiveness:

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Laura Boudreau

5 years

Fantastic! New initiative to support research on gender and labor markets in low-income countries! Extra props for its inclusivity and dedicated window for junior researchers. #DevEcon

@orianabandiera

Oriana Bandiera

@orianabandiera

5 years

Very excited to announce our first call for research proposals on jobs, gender and poverty. Pls RT ⁦⁦

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Laura Boudreau

4 years

The first NBER Gender in the Economy conference will take place later this summer. I am thrilled to see this roster of papers be part of the Summer Institute. Gives me, and whoever wants to tune in, an event to look forward to!

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Seema Jayachandran

4 years

Kickoff conference for the NBER Gender in the Economy group will be July 24-25, as part of the Summer Institute. The program has a 50-50 mix of papers about developed countries & LMICs. Streaming of the conference on YouTube will be open to all.

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Laura Boudreau

6 years

...with the unusual twist that multinational buyers are the source of enforcement for the safety committee law.

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Guo Xu

6 years

Great #JMP at the intersection of development and org econ: @LauraBoudreau conducts an RCT in 84 Bangladeshi factories to study the enforcement of safety committees - she finds positive effects on compliance and effectiveness driven by factories with better management practices.

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Laura Boudreau

4 years

Fascinating research on pharmaceutical intellectual property rights by my friend and JMC @charungupta ! She finds that most drugs are covered by multiple patents, and uses and IV strategy to show that patent accumulation delays generic entry well beyond initial patent expiration.

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Laura Boudreau

8 months

@jenniferdoleac Forest is feeling sassy and ready to distract you with a snowball fight.

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Laura Boudreau

2 months

@SIOEcon 2024? Join our session on organizational culture and culture change! @AlexiaDelf : "Beyond bonuses: the incentive effect of a prosocial initiative on bankers" @VirginiaMinni : "Meaning at Work" & Wei Cai: "Measuring Organizational Capital" Sat @ 8:45 am in Room Sky Suite.

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Laura Boudreau

1 year

At the export gate, relationships between exporters & buyers help overcome quality, financing, and reliability issues. In 2019, 80 & 70% of trade in coffee & garments took place between partners that traded in 2018. + corr between trade in relationships & market concentration.

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Laura Boudreau

5 years

Shout outs to the many wonderful women who helped lead @caleconwomen and these searches during my time at Berkeley. @femme_economics @juliana_londono @manaswini2110 @aislingscott @cerenbaysan And many others! Not sure who is on twitter!

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Laura Boudreau

5 years

Berkeley grad students, this fellowship is a wonderful way to support yourself as you wrap up your PhD! As a bonus, you get to know an interdisciplinary group of fellows interested in issues related to labor and to employment!

@IRLEUCB

IRLE UC Berkeley

5 years

Hey doctoral students! Apply for @IRLEUCB Dissertation Fellowship by March 22. IRLE offers a $15,000 stipend, plus in-state tuition & fees to UC Berkeley students nearing completion of a dissertation related to IRLE’s mission.

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Laura Boudreau

3 years

@BenRothEcon @mike_luca @RDMetcalfe @mslater_johnson For DiD, I teach cheap talk in bargaining on ebay (Backus et al, incl. @steve_tadelis ). I also used some COVID DiD papers this year. Happy to chat if it's useful!

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Laura Boudreau

1 year

And by teaser alert, I mean spoiler alert. Tweeting is not my forte.

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Laura Boudreau

5 years

I use pcpanel in my power simulations for experiments with panel data. I highly recommend it! Thank you @fburlig , @lpreonas , and Matt Woerman! I also love knowing that it's a product of Berkeley ARE PhDs!

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Fiona Burlig

5 years

(Tw: self-promotion) If you're interested in power calculations for panel data (including simulations!) check out -pcpanel- in @Stata , which accompanies my paper w @lpreonas and Matt Woerman on panel data experiments.

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Laura Boudreau

2 years

@mzrascoff Coincidentally, we have a study in the field on exactly this question! Give us another year or so, and we will be excited to share our findings.

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Laura Boudreau

2 years

We estimate that over 80% of teams sampled had at 1+ worker who had been harassed. The extent to which victims were isolated in teams varied by harassment type. These stats reveal that harassment is widespread; a policy of firing all harassers is unlikely to be feasible. 9/13

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Laura Boudreau

4 years

He may be a miser, but this turkey certainly livened up my jogs through the rose garden! I miss you, Oakland!

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Laura Boudreau

5 years

JDE makes pre-results review a permanent submission track! Exciting direction for rewarding important research qs and thoughtful designs in economics.

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Diego Aycinena

5 years

Important lessons from JDE's Pre-results Review. Congrats to @tedmiguel @UCBITSS & rest of team for the innovative venture, greatly needed in Econ. via @WorldBank

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Laura Boudreau

11 months

@alexeble @Columbia_CDEP @EricVerhoogen @myklebest @fabalbav @parijatlal @saritaoreq @palaashbhargava Hope you all had fun (but not too much fun)!

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Laura Boudreau

1 year

@alexeble Owww owww owww this calls for celebration!!! Great that we have a dev dinner tomorrow!

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Laura Boudreau

5 years

@ChrisANeilson @AnneKaring @micasviatschi @thomasfujiwara @jhaushofer Thank you, everyone - I am in for all of the above! I’m super excited to be part of such a dense #devecon community!

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Laura Boudreau

5 years

Fantastic presentations and engaging conversations today at the PacDev Conference! So much fun to present my work on multinational enforcement of labor law.

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Laura Boudreau

2 years

(4) Assuming that managers can be 3 "types," non-harassers, lower-grade harassers, and higher-grade harassers, we estimate via ML that the higher-grade harassers, who comprise 41% of supervisors, are responsible for 63% of harassment. [5/6]

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Laura Boudreau

2 years

@jenniferdoleac @SylvainChassang @adagt3 @rachelmheath Thanks, @jenniferdoleac ! It's worth noting that we tested these reporting mechs in the context of workplace harassment bc it is the relevant issue in our setting. But we think they're relevant for governance systems for many forms of misbehavior & hope others will also test them!

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Laura Boudreau

1 year

They also alter how markets function, and to understand market power along supply chains, frameworks should adequately account for the underlying contractual frictions that relationships address. We suspect that these themes are relevant to other areas of international trade.

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Laura Boudreau

4 years

@AnneKaring I'm picturing a survey enumerator chasing after a toddler with a tablet. :)

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Laura Boudreau

2 years

@jenniferdoleac Very exciting to see our paper as one of a growing list of insightful working and published economics papers on harassment. But we’re still far from the optimal number in my opinion.

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Laura Boudreau

11 months

@elianalaferrara @Unibocconi @ERC_Research @michelacarlana @DeserrannoErika @NicolaLimodio Wonderful news, congrats to all!

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Laura Boudreau

1 year

Beyond the export gate, in both coffee & garments, relatively small numbers of large firms command market power over farmers and workers. We show examples suggesting that monopsony power is positively correlated with the quality of relationships.

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Laura Boudreau

2 years

(3) In 86.5% of physical harassment cases and 73% of sexual harassment cases, victims are isolated w/in teams (i.e., only 1 person reports harassment). Implication: Requiring multiple to come forward with corroborating evidence would miss the vast majority of these cases. [4/6]

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Laura Boudreau

2 years

For each of the high-grade harassers that the firm fired, our estimates imply that it would reduce harassment by about 2.4 workers. [6/6]

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