兒童教育消費已成為當前城鎮家庭消費的一項重要內容,校外輔導班和興趣班的迅猛擴張,占據了兒童教育消費市場的主要領域。本研究通過對中國教育追蹤調查(CEPS)2013-2014基線調查數據的分析,檢視了我國城鎮家庭結構、親子關系和兒童校外教育消費之間的關系。研究發現,家庭對兒童校外教育消費的投入具有工具理性和情感表達的雙重特征,獨生子女家庭、雙親同住家庭以及更多的親子陪伴和親子互動能夠促進兒童校外教育機會的獲得,其中女孩的優勢更為突出。同時,兒童校外教育消費的階層差異也十分明顯,中產階層家庭對子女教育有更高的期待和投入,在校外輔導班或興趣班的選擇上具有顯著的階層化偏好。這些發現啟示我們,在兒童教育消費研究中需要重新審視家庭研究與消費研究之間的內在關聯。

The consumption of children education has become an important part of urban family consumption,and the rapid expansion of cram school and interest class have occupied the main fields of children education market.From the perspective of family study and using the China Education Panel Survey(2013-2014)data,this paper explores the relationship between family structure,parenthood,and consumption of children education.This research shows that the invest of children education by families exhibit dual characters of instrumental rationality and emotional expressions,and children from one-child family,living with both parents,and have more accompany and affective interaction with parents can attain more opportunity of education outside school.Girls have more advantage over boys.Meanwhile,the social class differences in the consumption of children education are significant.Middle-class family has higher education expectation and invest more in children education,displaying significantly stratified preference in cram school or interest class.Those findings inspire us that we should take a new look at family studies and consumption research when engaged in child education consumption research in the future.