摘要
The impact of social capital on economic development has been broadly studied by scholars. However, research in the Chinese context is relatively rare. Drawing upon data from the China General Social Survey, our results suggest that the enhancing effect of social capital on total factor productivity is very limited in the case of China. The network dimension of social capital is significant only in pooled OLS estimations, and trust as well as the participation dimension of social capital exert no impact across all estimations. Our interpretation is that this is partly due to the fact that trust, values and norms formed in civil society are inherently difficult to transmit to the market sector. Besides, the impact of social capital on economic performance is undermined when physical capital plays a significant role in production. We therefore propose that the effect of social capital on economic performance is contingent on localized social and economic conditions.
在经济开发的社会资本的影响被学者广泛地学习了。然而，在中国上下文的研究是相对稀罕的。从中国一般社会调查利用数据，我们的结果建议全部的因素生产率上的社会资本的提高的效果在中国的情况中是很有限的。社会资本的网络尺寸在分享的 OLS 评价，和信任以及社会资本的参予尺寸仅仅是重要的别越过所有评价施加影响。我们的解释是这是部分内在地由于信任，价值和标准在民用的社会形成了的事实是困难的传给市场部门。而且，当物理资本在生产起一个重要作用时，经济性能上的社会资本的影响被破坏。我们因此建议经济性能上的社会资本的效果取决于局部性的社会、经济的条件。
