Labor Supervision and Institutional Conditions: Evidence from Bicol Rice Farms
基于菲律宾比科尔地区稻农调查数据，分析劳动监督强度与制度条件的关系，发现制度条件越弱，监督强度越高。
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.