台灣家庭所得分配不均度自1980年以後逐年呈現惡化的趨勢，而造成家庭所得分配惡化的主因之一為家庭結構逐漸轉變為以核心家庭為主。早期對於台灣所得分配不均現象的研究多著墨在所得不均度的分解及探討所得不均擴大的因素，鮮少文獻討論到所得分配趨於不均情況之下如何影響家戶消費行為與整體最終消費支出的變化，故本文主要研究目的在於探討在所得不均程度差異較大之核心家庭最終平均消費支出是否與所得不均程度差異較小之核心家庭有明顯之差異，並探討家庭社經特質對於家戶消費行為的影響。
　　本研究實證資料為行政院主計處所提供「95年臺灣地區家庭收支訪問調查」
，原始資料樣本為13,776戶，扣除非核心家庭後最終樣本數為6,063戶。對於核心家庭平均消費支出最常使用最小平方法與Tobit模型，但估計結果僅提供平均數的分析，無法解釋極端消費家庭的消費行為，因此本文除了使用上述兩種估計模型外，並加入分量迴歸模型，對不同消費分量下之核心家庭提供不同的解釋。實證結果發現核心家庭在食品消費、酒精飲料消費與旅遊消費，在所得不均程度差異較大時核心家庭平均消費支出會增加；此外由分量迴歸模型也發現上述三項商品，所得不均度對於高消費分量家庭幾乎都呈現正向顯著效果，表示所得不均差異程度較大的情況下，會誘使高消費家庭增加更多的消費支出。

Income inequality of household in Taiwan has been growing since 1980 and risen over years. One of the main causes of increasing inequality is due to the change of family structure into nuclear family. Past research had paid attention on the decomposition of income inequality in Taiwan, while few studies had discussed the extent to which increasing income inequality may affect household consumption behavior. Therefore, this study attempts to investigate the distinction between high and low inequality areas in the final average expenditure of nuclear households, and also to analyze how the social-economic characteristics influence household consumption.
This study utilized the Survey of family Income and Expenditure in Taiwan in 2006. The initial data is 13,776 households, and the final sample is 6063, distinguishing nuclear household from the others. OLS and Tobit model are commonly employed when it comes to the average consumption of nuclear households. However, these two models only show the analysis on average, and fail to explain the distributional effect. As an alternative, this study estimate a quantile regression model to analyze the effects of exogenous variables on the distribution of the household consumptions. Results show that household average expenditure in high inequality area are greater than in the low inequality for food expenditure, alcohol drink expenditure, and travel expenditure. That is, these three consumption expenditures increase significantly in high income household of the high inequality area. In addition, these three consumption expenditures have positive effects at high quantiles, indicating that the expenditure will increase in the high consumption household of high inequality area.

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頁次
口試委員審定書 i
謝 辭 i
摘 要 iii
Abstract iv
第一章 緒論 1
第一節 研究動機 1
第二節 研究目的 4
第三節 論文架構 5
第二章 相關文獻回顧 7
第一節 背景 7
第二節 所得不均與消費需求相關文獻探討 10
第三節 小結 12
第三章 實證模型 13
第一節 最小平方法 13
第二節 分量迴歸模型 14
第三節 Tobit模型 17
第四節 受限制分量迴歸模型 20
第四章 資料來源與處理 23
第一節 資料來源 23
第二節 資料處理與變數選取 25
第五章 實證結果分析 32
第一節 總消費支出 32
第二節 食品消費支出 39
第三節 酒精飲料支出 44
第四節 菸草消費支出 48
第五節 衣著消費支出 53
第六節 保健與醫療消費支出 57
第七節 旅遊消費支出 61
第八節 娛樂消費支出 65
第六章 結論 70
第一節 結論與建議 71
第二節 研究限制與未來研究方向 72
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