关键词: 农村居民, 地方政府信任, 新农保, 福利效应

Abstract: The wellbeing of China's New Rural Pension Scheme（NRPS）has an important impact on enhancing political trust and governance capabilities. Using data of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS)，this paper empirically analyses the impact of the NRPS on local political trust from the perspective of the farmers' trust in local public officials. The results shows that compared with the noninsured group, the political trust of the insured residents is significantly higher. After considering the endogenous issues such as missing variables and selfselection, the result is still robust. Moreover, heterogeneity analysis shows that the NRPS has significantly improved the trust level of the government among lowincome and middleincome families as well as those in the central and western regions. Furthermore, we investigates possible mechanisms of the effect, including “material benefits”, “social benefits” and “selfsatisfaction benefits”, and finds that the NRPS has promoted local political trust by increasing the material benefits, social benefits and selfsatisfaction benefits of the insured residents. However, in the long run, the NRPS has not shown a longterm positive significant impact on local political trust. This may be due to the gap between the actual security level of the NRPS and the expected security level of the people.

Key words: rural residents, local political trust, New Rural Pension Scheme, wellbeing