消费不平等是经济不平等的重要组成部分,对衡量居民福利水平差距具有重要意义。本文选择国外消费不平等的代表性文献,回顾与评价了消费不平等的影响因素、测度方法以及消费不平等对经济增长与社会福利水平的影响研究成果,并指出了消费不平等未来研究的方向。 Consumption inequality is an important part of economic inequality, which is of great significance for measuring the level of residents’ welfare. This paper chooses the representative literature of foreign consumption inequality, reviews and evaluates the research results of the influence factors of consumption inequality, measurement methods and the impact of consumption inequality on the economic growth and social welfare level, and points out the direction of future research on consumption inequality .