Following the Rana Plaza factory collapse, foreign companies promised to enforce Bangladesh’s new labor law on their local suppliers. Laura Boudreau (Columbia University) explains what happened next. She describes research from a randomized control trial that assessed foreign oversight across factories in Bangladesh to learn how much companies complied with the new law and the impact that new occupational safety and health (OSH) committees had on safety, worker performance, and labor costs in factories (42:15).

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• Boudreau, Laura. Forthcoming. Multinational enforcement of labor law: Experimental evidence on strengthening occupational safety and health (OSH) committees. Econometrica.