Social capital is an integral part of farmers’ life, which can be exogenously affected by land recuperation. Based on 1240 farmer field survey data in Gansu Province, this paper used the Logit model to analyse the influencing factors of farmers’ participation in land recuperation, and used the entropy method to measure social capital from the three dimensions of social network, social trust and social norms, and further used the propensity matching score method to measure the effect of land recuperation on farmers, and then compared the effec...