Abstract:

 Using data from China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), this paper investigates the relationship between parents' use of the Internet and household education investment. This paper finds that parents' use of the Internet promotes household education investment significantly. Mechanism analysis shows that parents' use of the Internet incurs an echo chamber effect, which stimulates parents' education anxiety and paternalism, resulting in increasingly intense education investment. Further analysis shows that the positive impact of parents' use of the Internet on household education investment is greater among areas where education resources are poorly balanced and households that are deeply socially connected or are less educated. The paper integrates the echo chambers effect into research on household education investment, offering a novel perspective into the education involution. The conclusion is also beneficial for cutting off education involution and promoting online information governance.

Key words:

 , echo chambers, paternalism, households education investment

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