收入对家庭消费需求影响的性别差异——女性经济的潜能

Gender Differences in the Impact of Income on Household Consumption Demand—The Economic Potential of Women

摘要: 本文基于凯恩斯消费需求理论，通过中国家庭金融调查数据，对男女样本分别进行回归，发现女性户主收入增加对家庭消费的促进作用大于男性户主收入增加对家庭消费的促进作用，同样情况下，女性收入增加带来家庭消费的增加量更多，这为促进我国就业市场性别平等，缩小男女劳动收入差距提供了支撑。应当推动女性劳动收入增加，刺激家庭消费增长，从而推动我国经济进一步增长。

Abstract: Based on Keynesian theory of consumption demand and Chinese household finance survey data, this paper conducts regression on male and female samples respectively, and finds that the increase of female household head’s income has a greater promoting effect on household consumption than that of male household head’s income. In the same case, the increase of female household head’s income brings a greater increase in household consumption, which promotes gender equality in China’s employment market. The narrowing of the gender gap in labor income provides support. We should promote the increase of women’s labor income and stimulate the growth of household consumption, so as to promote the further growth of our economy.