作者：HELLIWELL, JF
作者单位：Harvard University; University of British Columbia
作者：YANG, XK; HEIJDRA, BJ
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
作者：ALSTON, LJ; FERRIE, JP
作者单位：Northwestern University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：We examine paternalism as an implicit contract in which workers trade faithful service for nonmarket goods. Paternalism reduced monitoring and turnover costs in cotton cultivation in the U.S. South until the mechanization of the cotton harvest in the 1950's. Until then, the effectiveness of paternalism was threatened by government programs that could have substituted for paternalism; but large Southern landowners had the political power to prevent the appearance of such programs in the South. ...
作者：HAMERMESH, DS
作者单位：Michigan State University; National Bureau of Economic Research
作者：KILLINGSWORTH, MR
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; National Bureau of Economic Research
作者：AGELL, J; YSANDER, BC
作者单位：Uppsala University; Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
