经济特区与社会信任——基于广东四市调查数据的实证研究

Special Economic Zone and Social Trust——Empirical Analysis based on the Survey Data from Four Cities in Guangdong Province

本文主要讨论了经济特区对于居民社会信任度的影响。选取2010-2013年《中国综合社会调查》中来自广东省的样本,并使用排序模型和倾向匹配得分模型进行估计,可以发现在控制了相关因素后,经济特区中个体的平均信任度高于省内其他地区个体的平均信任度。产生这一结果的机制在于,经济特区中所提供的高质量公共物品促进了高水平社会信任的形成。如果政策制定者的目标是经济的长期稳定发展,则经济特区的政策经验应向其他地区推广。

This paper discusses how special economic zone（SEZ） affects the residents＇ social trust.Using the data from CGSS（2010-32013）and keeping samples from Guangdong province,we can find that the average social trust level is higher in SEZ by both ordered model and propensity score matching estimations.The mechanism is that the high-quality public goods provided by SEZ can promote the formation of higher level of social trust.If the target of policy makers is the moderate economic development in the long term,the experience of SEZ should be extended to other regions.