Analysis on the Changing Trend of the Difference of Family Education Investment in China over Recent Years

Abstract

Family education has received ever-increasing attention in recent years, while the previous studies have mostly focused on the analysis of horizontal causes such as the connotation, status quo and influencing factors of differences in family education investment. The previous studies lack the analysis of vertical and temporal changing trends. Based on the data from 2010 to 2020 in the children database of China Family Panel Studies, this study longitudinally analyzes trends of the non-economic investment in family education in China parents checking childrens homework and economic investment extracurricular tutorial and finds that both show an overall obvious upward trend. It is enlightened that society gives more importance to both economic and non-economic investment in family education and expects to provide more diverse and efficient policies and suggestions on family education investment in the coming years, which is of great significance to improve the quality of family education and promote educational development.