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Laura Boudreau

  • Assistant Professor
  • Columbia Business School

Roles

IGC Staff

Researchers

Lead academics

Laura is Lead Academic for IGC Bangladesh.

She is an Assistant Professor in the Economics Division at Columbia Business School. Her research primarily focuses on working conditions, labour rights, and firm productivity in developing countries. She is especially interested in how the intersection of global supply chains with local institutions affect firms’ and workers’ outcomes and how labour market institutions affect economic development.

Projects

Economic impacts of COVID-19 on workers and firms in Bangladesh's garment sector

Laura Boudreau, Farria Naeem, Rachel Heath 31 Jan 2021
Project
Yangon workers

Evidence for policymaking to help Myanmar workers affected by COVID-19

Mari Tanaka, Laura Boudreau, Rocco Macchiavello, Virginia Minni, Min Zar Ni Lin, Ngu Wah Win 31 Mar 2021
Project
Sewing machines. Myanmar, Nyaung Shwe, Lago Inle. Photo by Jose Manuel Casado Sanchez/ Creative commons via Flikr

Measuring skills and labour productivity in the garment sector

Mari Tanaka, Rocco Macchiavello, Laura Boudreau, Virginia Minni 30 Jun 2021
Project
A woman weaving cotton in Inle Lake, Myanmar. Photo by Stefano Ravalli/ Creative commons via Flikr

Evidence and voice for minimum wage revisions

Mari Tanaka, Rocco Macchiavello, Laura Boudreau, Virginia Minni 30 Jun 2021
Project

Demand-driven, private sector enforcement of labour law in Bangladesh

Noam Yuchtman, Laura Boudreau 31 Aug 2018
Project

Understanding workers’ knowledge of working conditions in Bangladeshi garment factories

Laura Boudreau, Rachel Heath 31 Oct 2017
Project

All contributions

Boudreau et al Policy brief August 2023_Page_1

International buyers, suppliers’ performance, and workers’ outcomes in the garment sector in Bangladesh: Evidence from the pandemic

Laura Boudreau, Julia Cajal Grossi, Rachel Heath, Rocco Macchiavello
Policy brief
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Resilient jobs to support Bangladesh’s economic development and equity

Laura Boudreau, Farria Naeem
Project report

The economic effects of COVID-19 on garment factories in Bangladesh

Laura Boudreau, Farria Naeem
Policy brief
Policy brief Boudreau et al March 2021

Measuring skills in Myanmar’s garment sector

Laura Boudreau, Rocco Macchiavello, Virginia Minni, Mari Tanaka
Policy brief

Social norms and firm productivity in Bangladeshi garment factories

Laura Boudreau, Noam Yuchtman, Oren Reshef, Sakib Ifetkhar Mahmood
Blog

Improving labour standards: Enforcement interventions by multinationals in Bangladesh

Laura Boudreau
Blog
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Migrants, information, and working conditions in Bangladeshi garment factories

Laura Boudreau, Rachel Heath
Working paper