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Madeleine Drost

Postdoctoral Scholar

Madeleine Drost is a research manager working with Professor Stephanie Moulton on housing policy and household finance research, including work with the Ohio Housing Finance Agency. She helps to lead the Power of Home project, a program supporting Ohio homeowners with post-purchase home repair needs.

Drost earned her PhD in human development and family science from The Ohio State University and has specialties in demography and quantitative research and methodology. Her research interests surround geographic differences in family formation and household finances in rural versus urban America.

The Association of Financial Resources and Loneliness Among Older Adults During a State of Emergency
PLOS One
January 09, 2025

Madeleine Drost and Caezilia Loibl examine that during the initial COVID-19 wave in the United States, emergency savings were a key predictor of loneliness among older adults, with financial liquidity constraints shaping loneliness similarly across socioeconomic groups.

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