The Money Savvy Pig™ Goes to the Big City: Testing the Effectiveness of an Economics Curriculum for Young Children

The efficacy of an economics curriculum designed for elementary school children for augmenting their economic and financial awareness and knowledge is considered. A review of research that has previously investigated various facets of children's economic knowledge, eg, as a predictor of better academic achievement and whether gender or ethnicity affected children's attainment of financial information, is conducted. Second- and third-graders were introduced to a one-day economics curriculum and completed pretests (N = 316) and posttests (N = 388) that measured their attitudes toward handling money, investing, and saving. The findings demonstrated that participating students generally possessed more positive attitudes toward all three aspects of personal finance.