Abstract Based on the research data, this paper analyzes the mitigation effect of social capital on funding constraints and information constraints, which is faced by the farm households. Firstly, it proposes hypothesis of social capital, which are capital accumulation utility and information accumulation utility; secondly, by Probit model, the measurement results show that different dimensions of social capital have different influence on the entrepreneurship of farm households, and social networks has funding accumulation utility which is based on the informal finance alternative to formal finance; access to information has information accumulation utility; and the information accumulation utility is greater than funding accumulation utility.
TUN Ben-Jian,HU Li-Fang,MA Jiu-Jie. An Empirical Analysis on Social Networks, Access to Information and Entrepreneurship of Farm Households. Economic Survey, 2014, 31(5): 032.
2014, Vol. 31 
