Analyzing the effect of economics education on students' financial literacy and decision-making with the moderating role of the family's socio-economic status

The aim of the current research is to analyze the effect of economics education on financial literacy and decision-making of students with the moderating role of the socio-economic status of the family. In terms of practical purpose, the research is based on structural equation modeling according to the method of descriptive-correlation data collection. The statistical population studied is students studying in Urmia University in two faculties of Economics and Management and Literature and Human Sciences in the academic year of 2021-22 in the number of 1632 people, of which 313 people were selected by stratified random sampling method. Data collection was done using questionnaires of risk-taking, social norms, probabilistic thinking, financial literacy and socio-economic status of the family, and to analyze the data, firstly, the indicators of the research variables were analyzed using the analysis method. Multiple correspondence was calculated with XLSTAT 2019 software and then the desired model was estimated using generalized structural equation modeling with Stata 17 software. The findings indicate that economics education has a positive and significant effect on students' financial literacy and decision-making, and economics education through financial literacy has a significant effect on students' risk preferences, social preferences and probabilistic beliefs, and the moderating role of socio-economic status in relation to education. Economics and financial literacy were approved. The results of the present research support the effectiveness of policies promoting general and specific economics education and emphasize the distributive and egalitarian nature of such policies.