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Meta Brown

Business, Management and Accounting · The Ohio State University

Established · publishing since 1982

Publications

55

Citations

1,500

Est. group size

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

44

Publishing since 1982

Research summary
AI-generated

Meta Brown studies household finance topics such as debt, student loans, bankruptcy protection, and financial literacy, often examining how these issues affect different age groups and life stages like education, homeownership, and retirement. The work combines economics and personal finance to understand how financial rules and education shape household borrowing and financial decision-making.

Household debt and borrowingStudent loans and higher education financingPersonal bankruptcy and consumer protectionFinancial literacy and educationHousing and homeownership economics

Publication output has been modest and uneven over the last decade, with several years of no recorded output followed by a small uptick in 2024-2025.

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

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 1.0/year recently
17182019: 2 publications192020: 2 publications202021: 1 publication212022: 1 publication22232024: 3 publications3242025: 1 publication2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • SSRN Electronic Journal×2
  • Journal of Urban Economics×1
  • Nature Human Behaviour×1
  • Journal of Labor Economics×1
  • Journal of Pensions Economics and Finance×1
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This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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