Vikram Kriti
Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Health Place. 2018 Mar;50:42-51. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2017.12.007. Epub 2018 Jan 16.
Empirical studies of social capital rarely take into account the socioeconomic context of the region in which it operates, indeed as most of this research has been located in high income countries. It is imperative to investigate how development may influence the impact of social capital, especially in developing countries. This paper examines the relationship between social capital and child nutrition using the India Human Development Survey, 2005-2006. Using a multilevel framework and a sample of 6770 rural children under the age of five, it finds that household based bridging social capital, expressed as connections with development based organizations, is positively associated with child nutrition. Bonding social capital, expressed as ties with caste and religious based organizations, has the opposite impact. At the village level, contextual measures of social capital are associated with nutritional status of children, but their influence is conditional on local development.
社会资本的实证研究很少考虑其运作地区的社会经济背景，实际上，这类研究大多集中在高收入国家。研究发展如何影响社会资本的影响至关重要，尤其是在发展中国家。本文利用2005 - 2006年印度人类发展调查，研究了社会资本与儿童营养之间的关系。通过多层次框架和6770名五岁以下农村儿童的样本，研究发现，以与发展型组织的联系来表示的基于家庭的桥梁型社会资本与儿童营养呈正相关。以与种姓和宗教组织的联系来表示的纽带型社会资本则有相反的影响。在村庄层面，社会资本的背景指标与儿童营养状况相关，但它们的影响取决于当地的发展情况。
