Professor Moulton received her Ph.D. in Public Affairs from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, where she specialized in public management and policy analysis. Moulton’s research broadly focuses on the institutional determinants of public policy outcomes across sectors, including the intersection between public, private and nonprofit organizations and organizational publicness. Moulton specializes in low income housing policies and programs, and the impact of financial institutions and interventions on the financial well-being of low income and vulnerable populations.
Prior to her academic career, Moulton worked in the nonprofit sector, designing and managing asset building, homeownership, and community development programs at the local and state levels. In addition to research and teaching at OSU, Moulton serves on the Charitable Advisory Council to the Ohio Attorney General, and provides policy and research assistance to the Ohio Housing Finance Agency and the Office of Affordable Housing Research. She is currently the principal investigator on a randomized evaluation of financial planning interventions for low income homebuyers, funded in part through an OSU Outreach and Engagement Grant and the Social Security Administration’s Financial Literacy Research Consortium with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Financial Security.