Building social capital: Conditional cash transfers and cooperation
Building social capital: Conditional cash transfers and cooperation
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jebo.2015.04.004
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发表时间：
2015-10-01
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Pellerano, Luca
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作者：
Attanasio, Orazio;Polania-Reyes, Sandra;Pellerano, Luca
许多有条件现金转移（CCT）项目具有重要的社会成分，因此可以对社会资本产生影响。2007年，我们在哥伦比亚卡塔赫纳对1451名受试者进行了实地试验。我们将游戏中的行为解释为文学作品中所谓的社会资本的衡量标准。我们在两个相似的相邻街区玩这个游戏。“治疗”社区波宗（Pozon）已经成为有条件现金援助项目“家庭行动”（Families en action）的目标社区两年多了；而“控制区”Cienaga则没有。2008年，随着该项目在两个社区实施，我们玩了同样的公共产品游戏，因此能够实施差异中的差异策略来估计有条件现金转移支付对我们衡量社会资本的影响。2007年，我们观察到治疗社区的合作水平明显高于对照组。尽管两组在许多方面相似，但在一些可观察变量上却存在显著差异；阳性结果对这些差异的控制是稳健的。2008年，我们发现两个社区的合作水平在统计上是相同的，与2007年在治疗区观察到的水平相似。我们的结论是，有条件现金援助项目确实改善了合作。在分析CCT对合作的影响时，我们还研究了游戏中个人行为的其他（个人和群体）决定因素，并将我们基于游戏行为的测量方法与我们在特定情境调查中收集的文献中使用的更传统的社会资本测量方法进行了比较。(C) 2015 Elsevier B.V.版权所有
Many conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have important social components and, therefore, can have an effect on social capital. In 2007, we conducted a field experiment with 1451 subjects in Cartagena, Colombia. We interpret the behavior in the game as a measure of what in the literature has been called social capital. We played the game in two similar and adjacent neighborhoods. The 'treatment' neighborhood, Pozon, had been targeted for over 2 years by a CCT program, Families en Accion; the 'control' neighborhood, Cienaga, had not. In 2008, with the program being implemented in both neighborhoods, we played the same public goods game, and were therefore able to implement a difference in differences strategy to estimate the impact of the CCT on our measure of social capital.In 2007, the level of cooperation we observed in the treatment neighborhood was considerably higher than that in the control one. Although similar in many dimensions, the two groups turned out to be significantly different in some observable variables; the positive result was robust to controls for these differences. In 2008, we found that the level of cooperation was statistically identical across the two neighborhoods, and similar to the levels observed in 2007 in the treatment one. We conclude that the CCT program did improve cooperation.In analyzing the effect of the CCT on cooperation we also look at other (individual and group) determinants of individual behavior in the game, and we compare our measure based on behavior in the game to more traditional measures of social capital used in the literature that we collected in a context-specific survey. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.