Social Service,Labor Supervision and Agricultural Productivity in China
Agricultural production is characterized by long production cycles,unclear input-output rela-tionships,and difficulties in labor supervision.Based on the principal-agent theory,empirical analysis was conducted using micro-level survey data from 2968 plots across four provinces over two periods.The study investigated the relationship between socialized services and agricultural productivity,heterogeneity effects,and the role of labor supervision.The results indicate that agricultural socialized services contrib-ute to increasing agricultural productivity.For 1 unit increase in the proportion of agricultural socialized service expenditure,agricultural productivity will increase by 6.6%.However,in less standardized processes like pest control,the adoption of services does not affect agricultural productivity.Small-scale farmers do not benefit from socialized services as much as larger-scale farms.Socialized services have a greater impact on increasing agricultural productivity in maize cultivation compared to rice cultivation in China.Labor supervision plays a positive role in the impact of services on agricultural productivity.
modernization of agriculturesocialized servicesagricultural productivityentrusted agen-cylabor supervision
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