@article{07a0af1c2d2c42ac898b717861f74520,
title = "Bridging versus bonding social capital and the management of common pool resources",
abstract = "Social capital facilitates community governance of common pool resources (CPRs), but not all social capital is alike. We argue that bonding social capital can improve CPRs management, while the effect of bridging social capital is mixed, depending on household poverty level and resource quality. We test these predictions using primary data from Yunnan Province in China on firewood collection on communal lands. We find that both bonding and bridging social capital decrease firewood extraction, but they erode each other's effect. Further, bridging social capital decreases firewood collection mainly for those near subsistence levels, or when forest quality is high.",
author = "Kathy Baylis and Yazhen Gong and Shun Wang",
note = "Funding Information: We would like to thank two anonymous referees for giving us invaluable comments, and Professor Jintao Xu for his generous help with the data collection. We received thoughtful comments from participants at the NBER EEE Summer Workshop, seminars at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Korea University. In particular, we wish to thank Dan Millimet and Don Fullerton for their suggestions. Equal authorship is assumed for this paper. This research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project No. 71773135) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, under Hatch Project 230404. Yazhen Gong is the corresponding author (ygong.2010@ruc.edu.cn). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System.",
year = "2018",
month = nov,
day = "1",
doi = "10.3368/le.94.4.614",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "94",
pages = "614--631",
journal = "Land Economics",
issn = "0023-7639",
publisher = "University of Wisconsin Press",
number = "4",
}