电子商务有益于农村居民创业吗?——基于社会资本的视角

摘要

本文通过匹配城乡居民收入分配与生活状况调查(CHIPS2013)、县域电子商务发展指数(a-EDI2013)和《中国县域经济统计年鉴(2014)》数据,研究县域电子商务水平对农村居民创业选择的影响.研究结果表明,电子商务显著地促进了农村居民的创业选择及其创业投资和雇佣规模.考虑内生性问题后,这一结论仍成立.进一步地,电子商务改善农村居民异质且广泛的社会网络,降低农村居民对亲缘信任关系的依赖,部分地破除传统社会资本对农村居民创业的限制,从而促进了农村居民创业.%After matching the data of CHIPS2013 with the a-EDI2013 (electronic development index) released by Ali Institute and statistical yearbook of Chinese county in 2014, the impact of county level of e-commerce development on rural residents' entrepreneurship is tested, and the interaction effect of e-commerce and social capital are also estimated.It is found the e-commerce can improve the chance of rural residents' entrepreneurship significantly, and the positive influence is also effective in the capital investment scale and the employee scale.The result is still significant after using instrumental variables. Furthermore e-commerce can improve the heterogeneous and extensive social network, reduce the dependence on relationship trust, and partially eliminate the restrictions of traditional social capital on rural residents' entrepreneurship, so as to promote rural residents' entrepreneurship.