互联网使用对社区社会资本的影响——来自中国家庭追踪调查(CFPS)的经验证据

The Influence of Internet Use on Community Social Capital—— Empirical Evidence from China Family Panel Studies(CFPS)

互联网从经济、社会、文化等诸多方面改变了人们的生活,并深刻影响着社区社会资本的形成。本文基于2016年中国家庭追踪调查(CFPS)的数据,通过使用邻里信任作为社区社会资本的代理变量,实证检验了互联网使用能否以及如何影响社区社会资本。通过使用工具变量法克服内生性偏误后,发现个人的互联网使用显著且稳健地削弱了其邻里信任水平。机制分析的结果表明,互联网使用能够通过改变信息渠道、改变自评社会地位的方式降低个体对邻居的信任度。

The Internet has changed people’s lives from many aspects such as economy, society and culture,and deeply affected the formation of community social capital. Based on the data of China Family Panel Studies(CFPS) in 2016, this paper empirically tests whether and how Internet use affects community social capital by using neighborhood trust as a proxy variable. After overcoming the endogenous errors by using the instrumental variable method, I found that individuals’ Internet use significantly weakens the neighborhood trust level. The results of mechanism analysis illustrate that Internet use can reduce the trust of individuals to neighbors by changing information channels and self-rated social status.