Stephanie Moulton is professor and associate dean for faculty and research in the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University. Moulton is also a visiting scholar at the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank, a member of the Academic Research Council for the Urban Institute’s Housing Finance Policy Center, and an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.
She is a faculty affiliate with the University of Wisconsin’s Institute for Research on Poverty and Ohio State’s Institute for Population Research, and she serves on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Wealth and Mobility Study at the University of Michigan’s Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics. She previously served in leadership roles with the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, the Public Management Research Association and the American Real Estate and Economics Association. An outgoing co-editor for the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, she sits on the editorial board for the Journal of Housing Economics.
Moulton’s areas of expertise include housing and consumer finance, policy implementation and management across sectors, and program evaluation. She works in partnership with government, nonprofit organizations and private lenders to design, evaluate and improve public policies and programs. Substantively, Moulton’s research examines the causes and consequences of wealth inequality and household financial distress, with a focus on dynamics related to homeownership, mortgages and consumer debt. Her research has been funded by federal agencies and foundations including the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Social Security Administration, Russell Sage Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Ohio Housing Finance Agency and National Foundation for Credit Counseling.
Moulton is the author of numerous articles in top public affairs journals such as the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Public Administration Review, Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, and Journal of Public Administration and Theory. She also publishes in top general interest and specialty journals such as Nature: Human Behavior, Journal of the American Medical Association, Journals of Gerontology, Journal of Urban Economics, Real Estate Economics, and Social Science and Medicine. She is also the co-author of a book, “Effective Implementation In Practice: Integrating Public Policy and Management.”
Moulton earned her PhD from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. Prior to her academic career, Moulton worked in the nonprofit sector, designing and managing housing and community development programs at the local and state levels.
