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Catherine P. Montalto

Business, Management and Accounting · The Ohio State University

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Established · publishing since 1990
Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement AnalysisHousing Market and EconomicsRetirement, Disability, and EmploymentPsychological Well-being and Life SatisfactionGender, Labor, and Family Dynamics

Publications

45

Citations

1,907

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

35

Publishing since 1990

Research summary
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Catherine P. Montalto studies how people manage money over their lives, with a focus on college students' financial behavior, student loan debt, financial stress, and financial literacy. Her work also touches on family financial socialization (how parents teach children about money), saving behavior, retirement, and housing economics. This research is typically aimed at understanding consumer financial decision-making and well-being.

Student loan debt and financial stressFinancial literacy and financial socializationConsumer saving and risk behaviorRetirement and life-cycle financial planningHousing and family economics

Publication output was modest and fairly steady from 2017-2020 (1-2 papers per year), then dropped off sharply with little to no output from 2021-2025.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 0.2/year recently
2017: 1 publication172018: 2 publications2182019: 2 publications2192020: 1 publication202122232024: 1 publication242526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Journal of Consumer Affairs×2
  • Journal of Family and Economic Issues×1
  • Journal of college student development×1
  • International Journal of Consumer Studies×1
  • Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning×1
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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