产业技术升级对城镇居民教育投资决策的影响

The Influence of Industrial Technology Upgrading on Educational Investment Decision of Urban Residents

结合中国工业企业数据和城镇住户调查数据(UHS),以产业技术复杂度衡量地区产业技术升级水平,实证检验产业技术升级对城镇家庭及个人教育投资决策的影响效应及其作用机制,结果发现,产业技术复杂度的提升将显著增加家庭教育投资,且提高了适龄青少年接受高等教育的概率。机制分析发现,产业技术升级提高了当地高技能劳动力就业需求,对低技能劳动力产生了挤出效应。产业技术升级致使劳动力市场需求偏向高技能劳动力,是诱致家庭教育投资以及个人大学教育需求增加的主要原因。

This work uses the complexity of industrial technology to measure the level of the local industrial technology upgrading.It testifies the effect of industrial technology upgrading on the urban households and the individual educational investment decisions and its mechanism with the data of Chinese industrial enterprises and the China Urban Household Survey data.The results find that the increase of the complexity of industrial technology will significantly encourage families to increase educational investment and have a positive effect on the chance for school-age teenagers to go to college.The mechanism analysis shows that the upgrading of industrial technology increases the employment demand for local high-skilled labor,which has a crowding-out effect on low-skilled labor.The upgrading of industrial technology has led to a tendency to high-skilled labor in the labor market demand,which is the main reason for the increase in the investment in family education and the increase in demand for individual college education.