本文主要在探討社會地位對經濟體系的影響力，利用 Uzawa (1965) – Lucas (1988) 兩部門內生成長模型為基礎，生產架構則沿用 Bond, Wang and Yip (1996)，並在效用函數中納入社會地位作考量。發現當人們對社會地位渴望程度上升時，有兩個因素會造成經濟成長率變動方向的不同，分別為兩部門的投資分配和實質工資的兩部門相對價格彈性大小。大多情況下人們對社會地位的渴望程度和經濟成長率呈正相關；除非第一部門為資本密集，且工資彈性小於一，則人們對社會地位的渴望程度和經濟成長率呈負相關；這當中主要有兩股力量在拉扯，分別為為了追求社會地位而促使資本存量增加而令經濟成長率上升的正向影響，以及在工資彈性小的時候人們對教育的投資意願下降使得產出減少的負向影響。由此可知，雖然追求社會地位能促進經濟體系的正向成長，但人力資本仍然是體系中重要的環節。

This paper discusses how social status affects economic growth. The framework adopts the two–sector endogenous growth model of Uzawa (1965) – Lucas (1988). The production technology is constructed the same as Bond, Wang and Yip (1996). The social status is taken into consideration by bringing into utility to the representative household. We find that there are different effects on economic growth when people desire higher social status. The mentioned different effects are determined by two main factors：the factor-intensities of the two sectors, and the relative price-elasticities of wage of the two sectors. 
In most cases, the more people desire social status the higher the economic growth would be. Only when the first sector is physical-capital intensive and that wage is  price-inelastic, the people’s desire extent to social status is negatively related to economic growth. 
We find that the social status pursuing produces two channels to affect economic growth. The first is the negative effect on economic growth caused by the reduction in education investment when wage is price inelastic. The second is the positive effect on economic growth caused by the increases in physical capital accumulation. Although the social status pursuing dominates the effect on economic growth, the human capital also plays some role.

第一章緒論1
第一節研究背景與動機1
第二節研究目的3
第二章文獻回顧5
第一節經濟成長5
第二節社會地位9
第三章理論模型14
第四章恆定狀態分析	20
第五章結論26
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