社会资本能否促进中国环境全要素生产率的增长?

Can Social Capital Promote the Growth of Environmental Total Factor Productivity in China?

社会资本用于解释经济发展已成为一个崭新而有效的视角,然而,将社会资本引入环境全要素生产率的研究却是凤毛麟角,导致全要素生产率的影响因素分析不够深入、客观。本文考察社会资本综合属性的同时,关注水资源,以兼顾环境全要素生产率测算的客观性,构建固定效应模型分析社会资本对环境全要素生产率的影响。研究发现:①环境全要素生产率在省际间发展相对均衡,未引入水资源导致高估环境全要素生产率、低估环境污染;②总体而言,社会资本促进环境技术进步,抑制环境技术效率;单维度而言,社会资本的网络维度对提高环境全要素生产率有正影响,而信任维度有负影响;③政府环境规制和科技水平对环境全要素生产率有促进作用,资本禀赋结构对其有负作用。

The use of social capital to explain economic development has become a new and effective perspective. However,few studies introduce social capital into environmental total factors,which leads to the lack of in-depth and objective analysis of the formation mechanism and influencing factors of the total factors. While investigating the comprehensive attributes of social capital,this paper pays attention to water resources,in order to take into account the objectivity of the measurement of environmental total factor productivity,and constructs a fixed-effect model to analyze the impact of social capital on environmental total factor productivity. It is found that:( 1) the development of environmental total factor productivity is relatively balanced among provinces,and the absence of water resources leads to overestimation of environmental total factor productivity and underestimation of environmental pollution;( 2) generally speaking,social capital promotes environmental technical progress and inhibits environmental technical efficiency;in a single dimension,the network dimension of social capital has a positive impact on the improvement of environmental total factor productivity,while the trust dimension has a negative impact;( 3) the government’s environmental regulation and the technology level have a positive effect on the environmental total factor productivity,while the capital endowment structure has a negative effect on it.