城市化中的教育消费:差异、属性与影响因素

Educational Consumption in Urbanization:Differences, Attributes and Influencing Factors

城市化提高了家庭的教育消费,在参考相关文献的基础上,区分了教育消费与教育投资、教育消费的奢侈品属性与必需品属性的概念,采用2004-2017年30个省域的面板数据,回归分析了城市化与教育消费、教育消费收入弹性的关系,并得出结论:城市化对教育消费具有促进作用,对教育消费的收入弹性也有显著的提升作用,中低收入家庭在教育消费弹性提升更快。依据分析的结论,提出了明晰教育财政职能、重视教育消费分化、引导理性教育消费的建议。

Urbanization improves household's educational consumption. On the basis of referring to relevant literatures, this paper distinguishes the concepts of educational consumption and investment in education, luxury property and essential property of educational consumption. Using panel data of 30 provinces from 2004 to 2017, we regressively analyses the relationship between urbanization and educational consumption, income elasticity of educational consumption, and draws a conclusion that urbanization is a tool for educational consumption. It also has a promotive effect on the income elasticity of education consumption, and the middle and low income families have a faster increase in the elasticity of education consumption. According to the conclusion of the analysis, this paper puts forward some suggestions on clarifying the financial function of education, paying attention to the differentiation of educational consumption and guiding rational educational consumption.