Labor Supervision and Institutional Conditions: Evidence from Bicol Rice Farms

Sanjaya DeSilva, Robert E. Evenson and Ayal Kimhi

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2006, vol. 88, issue 4, 851-865

Abstract: This article analyzes labor supervision activities reported in a survey of rice farmers in the Bicol region of the Philippines. We present a theoretical model that relates supervision intensity to institutional conditions. We estimate a supervision intensity equation and control for the decision to hire labor, the decision to supervise hired labor, and the type of the labor contract. The empirical estimates use different village-level spatial and demographic indicators as proxies for institutional conditions. The results are consistent with the prediction of the theoretical model that supervision increases with weaker institutional conditions. Copyright 2006, Oxford University Press.

Date: 2006
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