A gazdasági felsőoktatás hatása a fiatalok pénzügyi kultúrájára

Abstract

The objective of our research was to reveal whether the financial literacy of university students receiving specific financial-economic education differs from that of youths not participating in this kind of higher education. According to our results, the positive impact of economic higher education can be detected clearly only in the case of one component of financial literacy, namely the financial knowledge. In the case of financial behaviour (the second component of financial literacy) positive effect of the participation in economic higher education appeared only in two elements, while in the case of financial attitudes (the third component of financial literacy) it could not be identified at all. All of this confirms the need for launching financial-economic education into the public education, as later on education can only have a significant impact on the visible, above-surface part of financial literacy.