二零一三年春学期 第三讲 总第十七讲
Lecture 3, Spring 2013, Total 17th
贰零壹叁年
主持人（Chaired by）：黄剑波 Dr. JianBo Huang
主讲人（Key Speaker）：露丝·泰莉 博士Dr. Ruth N. López Turley
讲题（Topic）：社会资本对儿童行为的因果效应Causal Effects of Social Capital on Children’s Behavior
时间（Time）：五月十四日（星期二）晚六点－八点（18：00-20：00）（14th, April）
地点： 中国人民大学人类学研究所—人大科研楼 A座 212会议室
Venue: Room 212, Building of Keyan, A-Wing, Renmin Univesity of China, P.C. 100872
联系人：付来友；电话：18810307294 邮件：fulaiyou1@163.com
Contact: Laiyou FU, Tel: 18810307294, Email: fulaiyou1@163.com
讲题简介：
一直以来，社会资本被标榜为许多社会利益的来源，但是对此的经验研究却一直受制于经验和因果上的模糊性。通过梳理文本，我们对社会资本进行了更为明确的界定，制定了更为精确测量方法，并对社会资本对学生成绩的影响进行了因果分析。我们利用了三种分析方法来分析在52个小学进行的一组随机试验获得的数据：试验意愿以及试验本身对试验效果影响的多层统计分析模型，工具变量模型，以及中介变量模型。三者一起利用，这些因果分析比以前的研究更为有力地证明了社会资本能够提高学生的成绩，而这些提高并不简单是由于进入到社会关系之中的选择的作用，而是社会关系本身的结果。
Social capital has been touted widely as a source of many social benefits, but empirical research has been constrained by conceptual and causal ambiguity. Sifting through the literature, we construct a more focused conceptualization of social capital, develop more precise measures, and conduct a causal analysis of the effects of social capital on children’s outcomes. Using data from a cluster randomized trial of 52 elementary schools, we apply three analytical approaches: multilevel models of intent to treat and treatment on the treated effects, instrumental variables models, and causal mediation models. Taken together, these causal analyses provide stronger evidence than previous studies that social capital improves children’s outcomes and that these improvements are not simply a result of selection into social relations but rather that these improvements result from the social relations themselves.
露丝·泰莉（ Ruth N. López Turley）博士简历：
露丝博士是社会学副教授，并担任休斯顿教育研究财团的主管，这一组织由莱斯大学和当地公立学校区合办，致力于弥合（学生）在学业成就方面的差距。她曾在斯坦福大学和哈佛大学学习，是肯尼迪政府管理学院社会不平等与社会政策跨学科工程的博士研究生。她之前曾是威斯康星-麦迪逊大学的社会副教授，并在威斯康星教育研究中心工作过。2004年，她成为国家教育学院（National Academy of Education ）的博士后研究员，2012年，她开始在国家研究委员会（the National Research Council）供职。
Dr. Ruth N. López Turley is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Houston Education Research Consortium, which is a research partnership between Rice University and the local public school district that aims to close the socioeconomic gaps in achievement and attainment. She attended Stanford and Harvard University, where she was a Doctoral Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government’s Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy. She was previously an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and an affiliate of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research. In 2004, she was a National Academy of Education Postdoctoral Fellow, and in 2012, she served on the National Research Council.