Leaders in Social Movements: Evidence From Unions in Myanmar

We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the IGC, the STICERD, the Joint Usage and Research Center (IER, Hitotsubashi University), and JSPS Grant Number JP23K20609. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the staff at the CTUM, the CTUM-affiliated trade unions’ leaders of garment factories, staff at the CTUM Women Center, the Myanmar Survey Research, Aye Thidar Han Naw, Myat Mo Phu, Sergio Andres Florez Orrego, Ottavia Pesenti, Gabriel Rourke, Xinyu Ren, Oliver Seager, Athina Valioulis, Wenzhi Wang for assisting our data collection and excellent research assistance. We have benefited from comments from seminar participants at Berkeley Political Economy Conference, Critical Junctures Conference, CEPR Org, Columbia, Dartmouth, LSE, MIT, Munich, NBER Org, Osaka University, SIOE, UMichigan, University of Tokyo, and Wharton. IRB approval was obtained from the LSE (31/10/2019), Columbia (IRB- AAAS7778, 30/4/2020), and Hitotsubashi (2019C011, 12/05/2019). The study is listed on the AEA registry (AEARCTR-0005183). All errors are our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• data appendix
• randomized controlled trials registry entry
• Supplementary Materials File (permanent online link)