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2月24日 Seminar – WANG Shun博士
发布时间：2012-02-23
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主题：Bridging versus Bonding Social Capital and the Governance of Common Pool Resources
主持人：经济与工商管理学院经济系主任罗楚亮副教授
主讲人：WANG Shun博士
时间：2012年2月24日上午09:30-11:30
地点：北师大后主楼1610
Abstract
We compare the effect of bridging versus bonding social capital on the management of a common pool resource in this paper. We first develop a theoretical model and show that bonding social capital increases vulnerability to social sanction, while by giving communities an outside option, bridging social capital can reduce people’s vulnerability, making them less susceptible to social sanction, and reducing the enforcement capability of the community. We then test this finding using household level data on firewood collection and social capital from the Yunnan province in China. We find that bonding social capital improves management of the common pool resource, but that the effect of bridging social capital is mixed. When bonding social capital is low, bridging social capital decreases the amount of resource consumption, however when bonding is high, bridging erodes the effect of bonding. We also find that individuals with higher bridging social capital are less sensitive to the resource capacity, and those with few assets therefore few options to self-insure against risk, decrease their consumption with higher bridging social capital.
Introduction of the presenter
I’m currently a Ph.D. candidate in UBC Department of Economics. I got my B.A. in business administration and M.A. in economics in Guanghua School of Management in Peking University. My research interests are in development economics, applied microeconomics, and the economics of subjective well-being. I’m currently a team member of the ‘Social Interactions, Identity and Well-Being’ research program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, conducting research on measuring and understanding subjective well-being. I also have projects on the roles of social network and trust in rural governance and economic development in China.