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Risk attitudes and household consumption behavior: Evidence from China

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FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
卷 10, 期 -, 页码 -

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FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.922690

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risk attitude; household consumption; consumption behavior; consumption type; household finance survey; heterogeneity analysis

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  1. Philosophy and Social Science Planning Project of Guangdong Province [GD21CYJ31]
  2. Characteristic Innovation Project of Ordinary Colleges and Universities Guangdong Province [2021WTSCX206]
  3. Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities in China [202210403]
  4. Social Science Planning Project [2022GZYB12]

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Risk attitude has a significant impact on household consumption behavior, with risk preference promoting consumption, especially enjoyment consumption. Risk neutrality promotes survival consumption, while risk aversion has an inhibitory effect on overall consumption behavior. Risk attitude remains an important factor in consumption behavior for male households. Age is a crucial factor in the relationship between risk attitude and consumption behavior, while education level does not play a role.
Risk attitude is a vital component of public mental health. Thus, the public should be guided to fully comprehend risks to improve public mental health. Using panel data from China Household Finance Survey (CHFS) in 2017, this study examined the impact of risk attitudes on household consumption behavior by constructing a micro-econometric model. Results suggest that risk attitude can promote household consumption, with multiple robustness tests supporting this conclusion. In addition, after dividing the consumption types into subsistence consumption, development consumption, and enjoyment consumption, we show risk preference promotes all three types of consumption and has the greatest impact on enjoyment consumption. Concurrently, risk neutrality can promote household survival consumption, but its promotion effect is smaller than that of risk preference. Moreover, risk aversion has an inhibitory effect on total consumption behavior, but this inhibitory effect does not show heterogeneity for different consumption behaviors. Heterogeneity analysis found that for male households, risk attitude remains an important factor in consumption behavior. When men's risk attitude is more risk averse, it can promote more survival consumption, whereas women's risk attitude is more risk averse. With increasing age, risk attitude remains a crucial factor in the occurrence of consumer behavior. However, education level has no bearing on the effect of risk attitude on household consumption behavior. This research holds theoretical and practical significance for improving public mental health, optimizing residents' consumption structure, and achieving high-quality economic development.

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