教育、闲暇与经济增长--理论模型与实证研究

本文通过把消费者时间分为工作时间、教育时间、闲暇时间,重点扩展了闲暇时间对人力资本积累作用和技术进步的外部性,将闲暇时间和教育时间同时引入经济增长模型中分析了两种时间对经济增长的影响和最优平衡增长路径.随后进行了实证研究,结果表明:我国教育时间(即人力资本投资)对中国经济增长有很大的拉动作用,同时,积极健康的闲暇活动能够促进经济增长,但是由于我国处于工业化阶段,对闲暇的偏好还很低,总体上闲暇时间对我国经济增长有微弱的抑制作用.因此,合理安排闲暇活动和正规教育活动对我国经济增长有重要意义.

Education, Leisure and Economic Growth

This paper divides consumer time into working time,education time and leisure time.We focus on the effect on human capital accumulation and externality on technological advance of leisure time,and analyze the impact of leisure time and education time on economic growth in our model.Empirical results show that education time(i.e.human capital investment) and leisure time promote economic growth in a large degree.Positive and healthy leisure activities help to promote economic growth.However,leisure time in holistic standing has slightly negative influence on economic growth owing to the industrialization in China and weak preference to leisure.Thus it is important to rationally arrange leisure and education activities.