习惯形成视角下消费问题的研究进展

Research Progress on Consumption Issues from the Perspective of Habit Formation

习惯形成理论近年来在中国居民消费问题的研究中发挥了重要的作用。基于广义的视角,从理论框架、研究视角、对象、数据和方法等方面对内、外部习惯形成理论在消费问题研究上的应用进展进行了梳理,以期为新时期习惯形成视角下中国居民消费问题的研究提供参考。研究发现:习惯形成视角下消费问题的研究起初多基于内部习惯形成理论的框架,外部消费习惯形成的研究起步相对较晚且近年来主要基于同群效应理论的框架开展。在消费习惯形成的研究从宏观视角为主过渡至宏微观视角相结合的过程中,研究对象从居民的总消费拓展至分类消费,研究所使用的数据质量在逐步提高,因果效应识别的方法也逐渐稳健和完善。此外,广义习惯形成理论框架下消费问题的研究也在内、外部消费习惯形成研究的基础上逐步开展。未来的研究应更多地基于中国的现实背景,在广义习惯形成的框架下,从动态的角度来考察居民的消费行为,并提出了值得研究的若干问题。

The theory of habit formation has played an important role in the research on Chinese residents’consumption issues in recent years.Based on a broad perspective,this study reviews the application progress of the theory of internal and external habit formation in consumption issue research from the perspectives of theoretical framework,research perspective,research object,research data and method in order to provide reference for the research of Chinese residents’consumption issues from the perspective of habit formation in the new era.It is found that the research on consumption issues from the perspective of habit formation is mostly based on the framework of internal habit formation theory initially,and the research on external consumption habit formation starts relatively late and in recent years has been carried out mainly based on the framework of the same group effect theory.During the process of transitioning from mainly a macro perspective to a combination of macro and micro perspectives in consumption habit formation research,the research object has expanded from residents’total consumption to classified consumption,the quality of the data used in the research is gradually improving,and the methods for identifying causal effects are also becoming more robust and perfect.In addition,the consumption issue research within the framework of generalized habit formation theory has gradually been carried out based on the research on the formation of internal and external consumption habits.It is suggested that the future research should be more based on the framework of generalized habit formation,examine the consumption behavior of residents from a dynamic perspective.Several issues worth studying based on China realistic background are also proposed.