社会资本能促进土地流转吗?——基于中国家庭追踪调查的研究

Can Social Capital Promote Farmland Transfer? A Case Study Based on China Family Panel Studies

土地流转是实现农业适度规模经营的必要前提,社会资本通过降低交易成本促进土地流转。本文利用中国家庭追踪调查数据(CFPS)实证分析非正式社会交往与正式组织参与两类社会资本对土地流转的影响,研究发现:礼金支出越高,与邻居、亲朋交往越频繁,有族谱或家谱的农户租出土地的概率越高,但这类"强关系"对土地租入的影响不显著;参与正式组织的农户,更倾向于租入土地。以亲缘、血缘和地缘关系为基础的"特殊信任"是推动土地租出者走向合作的行动逻辑,但更高的社会地位和更广的关系网络对土地租入者利用资源和获取信息进而进入土地流转市场的作用更显著。

Farmland transfer is a necessary precondition of scale operation in agriculture,and social capital boosts farmland transfer by reducing transaction cost. Based on the data of China Family Panel Studies( CFPS),the paper tests the influence of two types of social capital including informal social communication and formal organization participation on farmland transfer. The results indicate that the households have higher gift expenditure,more frequent contacts with relatives and friends,genealogies or family trees are more likely to do outward farmland transfer,but the impact of such 'strong ties'on inward farmland transfer is not significant. The households which participate in formal organization are more likely to do inward farmlandtransfer. This shows the 'special trust'which based on genetic,blood and geographical relationship is the action logic of propelling farmland leaser cooperating,but higher social status and wider social network have more significant effects on households which take use of resources and heterogeneous information to do inward farmland transfer.