来自父母的收入馈赠:人力资本机制抑或社会资本机制?

Gift Income from Parents: Human Capital or Social Capital?

为了区别父母对子女收入的影响究竟通过人力资本机制,还是通过社会资本机制实现,本文考察了官员子女这一特殊群体高收入的原因。研究表明,在愈加完善的监督机制和严格的监督环境下,官员身份对子女的收入增长不再呈现显著促进作用,社会资本机制受到一定程度的抑制。然而,受教育水平间接强化了官员子女与一般家庭子女收入之间的不公平。其中,母亲为官对子女收入的间接提升作用尤为明显,人力资本机制成为其子女收入增长的主要路径。当前的监督机制和监督环境已经很好地控制了官员通过权力直接提高子女收入的现象,如何进一步规范官员子女通过权力间接获得更好的收入增长条件,是今后制度设计的目标。

To understand how parents affect children s income,be through the mechanism of human capital or social capital, this paper examines causes of high income of a special group of people-officials' children.The result shows that power has no significant contribution on children's income growth under an increasingly improved supervision mechanism, and the direct mechanism of social capital has been significantly suppressed. However, education can indirectly strengthen income inequality between officials children and those from ordinary families. Especially for people whose mothers are officials, the mechanism of human capital tends to be more significant,which becomes main path of income growth. This paper concludes that the current supervision mechanism and supervision environment have well controlled officials abused power in directly increasing their children's income, and future regulations should focus on indirect paths.