“赶学游戏”:市场化与家庭课外教育消费 ——基于中国家庭金融调查的实证研究-清华大学教育研究

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Title:: “The Making-out Game in Education”:Marketization and Family Extracurricular Education Consumption ——Empirical Research Based on China Household Finance Survey (CHFS)

Author(s):: LI Rong-bin; School of Sociology and Political Science, Anhui University

Keywords:: marketization; the making-out game in education; herd mentality; short-term preferences; extracurricular education consumption

摘要:: 利用2015年中国家庭金融调查数据,从市场化视角探讨中国家庭课外教育消费急剧增长之“谜”。研究结果表明:市场化对家庭课外教育消费具有显著的正向影响,且对独生子女、高学历及有房产家庭的影响更大;从众心理和短期偏好是市场化影响家庭课外教育消费的两个主要机制;财政教育支出增加不仅不会降低家庭课外教育消费,反而因无法满足家庭对优质教育资源的需求,导致家庭课外教育消费进一步增加。本文揭示了影响家庭课外教育消费的市场结构因素,以及教育不平等日益加剧的可能机制。

Abstract:: Based on the data of the 2015 China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), this paper explores the “mystery” of the rapid growth of Chinese households’ consumption of extracurricular education from the perspective of marketization. The results show that marketization has a significant positive impact on family extracurricular education consumption, especially in families with only one child, highly-educated parents, and multiple properties. Herd mentality and short-term preference are the two most important influencing mechanisms through which marketization affects household extracurricular education consumption. An increase in fiscal expenditure on education not only fails to reduce household extracurricular education consumption but also leads to its further increase due to the inability to meet families’ demand for high-quality educational resources. The conclusions of this paper reveal the social structural factors influencing family consumption of extracurricular education, as well as a possible mechanism of increasing educational inequality.