As a key human resource, financial literacy refers to consumers' knowledge andability to deal with financial resources. The improvement of financial literacy can bringmore benefits to consumers. Determines the efficiency of consumer financialdecision-making, financial literacy with the popularity of financial literacy and improvemake consumers of financial products and services acquired gradually become easy, atthe same time, the form of financial products and services also have more, these newforms cause great challenge to the lack of financial knowledge group, also forconsumers to participate in the will and the form of commercial insurance. In recentyears, commercial insurance as a whole has developed rapidly, and consumers'
awareness of risk prevention has been continuously improved, so they actively buyinsurance. Commercial insurance has its own protection function, and is also the mainmeans of family risk management. However, in fact, the current situation of Chinesefamilies participating in commercial insurance is still not optimistic. For this situation,relevant scholars have already made explanations from the aspects of age, income,gender and so on. With the continuous emergence of the concept of financial literacy inthe field of financial behavior, researches on the impact of financial literacy onhousehold financial behavior have been gradually carried out. However, most of thecurrent studies on financial literacy focus on household asset allocation, lendingbehavior and risk market participation. There are few studies on the impact of financialliteracy on commercial insurance participation, so there is still a broad area for research.
Through in-depth analysis of existing studies, this paper further explores theinfluence mechanism of financial literacy on family commercial insurance participation,conducts empirical tests, and puts forward targeted solutions. First of all, throughreading a large number of literature, this paper defines the definition, measurement andinfluencing factors of financial literacy, and makes clear the concept, characteristics andinfluencing factors of commercial insurance. Then, from three transmission mechanismsof income, risk attitude and social interaction, the influence of financial literacy oncommercial insurance participation is deeply discussed, and the mechanism of theinfluence of financial literacy on commercial insurance is determined. Then, throughdescriptive statistics of data, it is concluded that China's financial literacy is generallylow, and the overall participation rate of commercial insurance is increasing but theoverall participation rate is low. Using the data of China Household Finance SurveyProject (CHFS), the Probit model is used to test the influence of financial literacy on family commercial insurance participation. The empirical results show that financialliteracy has a promoting effect on family insurance participation, and the eastern regionhas the highest influence degree, followed by the western region, and the central regionhas the weakest influence. Finally, according to the conclusions and empirical results ofthe impact of financial literacy on residents' commercial insurance participationdescribed above, corresponding countermeasures and suggestions are put forward forthe government, insurance institutions and individuals respectively.