Resumen de History of education in finance based on statistical techniques in scientometrics

Ester Muñoz Céspedes, Raquel Ibar Alonso , Miguel Cuerdo Mir

• Since the middle of the 20th century, there has been a notable increase in the interest in improving the level of education in finance in society and the need for a greater presence in university education. The aim of this paper is to examine, through a historical review of the specialized academic production, how finance education is characterized and how this education is linked to the university environment.

  This research develops a statistical analysis, using scientometric techniques, of financial education based on a sample of 2681 documents from the scientific literature indexed in Scopus from 1976 to 2021. Quantitative statistical techniques are used to measure and describe this historical path of academic production and to analyze the conceptual framework. The analysis conducted concludes that scientific production has increased exponentially after the economic and financial crisis of 2008. Furthermore, financial literacy is identified as a novel, cross-cutting and unconsolidated field of knowledge, in which the distinctive feature is the need to develop it in the field of private household decisions, whose welfare requires informed financial decisions that demand important changes in educational policies