Abstract:

Family educational expenditure shares a relatively large portion in residents daily expenditures. In recent years, rural family educational expenditure in Guangdong Province increased slowly and the proportion of educational expenditure in total spending was falling due to the influence of family per-capita net income, housing expenses, inflation and government spending on education. This phenomenon is worth thinking and vigilant by all circles of society. The causes of variation in family educational expenditure had been studied in this paper: when the family per-capita net income reached a fixed value, the growth rate of educational expenditure was lower than that of income, and educational expenditure decreased with the increase of income. Meanwhile, with the rise of inflation, there was an obvious squeezing which affect family on educational expenditure from housing expenses, the income effect of government spending on education to family educational expenditure had become weaker relatively, finally leading to a decrease in the proportion of educational expenditure in total spending. Therefore, the peasant’s consumption concept should be properly guided, the consumption expenditure structure in rural families should be optimized, government expenditure on educational in rural areas still needs to be improved, and the inflation should be controlled appropriately, thus achieving the purpose of increasing peasant’s expenditure in culture and education.