性别比例失衡对消费的影响——基于婚姻匹配竞争和家庭代际关系视角的分析

How Does Gender Imbalance Affect the Consumption——A Research from the Angles of Marriage Matching Competition and Family Intergenerational Relations

基于婚姻匹配和家庭代际理论,利用2011年的中国家庭金融调查数据,考察了性别比例失衡对居民三种不同类型消费的影响,并进一步分析了性别比例失衡对三类消费的作用及其在四类人群之间的差异。研究结果表明,性别比例失衡不仅抑制了居民的总消费,而且抑制了居民的享乐型消费和功利型消费,但这种抑制作用仅体现在未婚男性人群、已婚男性人群和已婚女性人群的消费上,而未体现在未婚女性人群的消费上。

Based on the marriage matching theory and family intergenerational theory,this paper used the data of ＂China Household Finance Survey＂ in 2011 to investigate the impact of gender imbalance on residents＇ different consumption types. The further study revealed the impact of gender imbalance on three different types of consumption, also the differences among four categories of people. The results showed that, gender imbalance exerted inhibit effect on residents overall consumption, especially hedonic consumption and utilitarian consumption, what only existed in the group of unmarried male residents, married male residents and married female residents. However, the consumption behavior of unmarried female residents hadn＇t been suppressed.