Research:
Savings Behavior; Earned Income Tax Credit; Poverty dynamics; economic consequences of divorce and single-parenthood; financial hardship

Teaching:
Family economics; consumer economics

Interests:
Dr. Mauldin's scholarly interests include the areas of low income households and poverty, poverty dynamics, economic consequences of divorce, single-parenthood, and related public policy concerns. Current projects focus on financial hardship, savings behaviors, and public policy issues of low-income households.

Education:

Selected Publications/Presentations:

Mauldin, T., & Mimura, Y. (in press).  Changes in marital status and poverty dynamics among mothers with children living at home. Journal of Family and Economic Issues.

Linnenbrink, M., Koonce, J., Mauldin, T., Rupured, M., & Schlanger, K. (in press).  The earned income tax credit: Experiences from and implications of the voluntary income tax assistance program in Georgia.  Journal of Extension.

Opoku, A., Mauldin, T., Sweaney, A., Bachtel, D., Atiles, J., & Eaves, C. (2006).  Predisposing, enabling, and need predictors of community versus institutional long term care.  Journal of Housing for the Elderly, 20(1), 133-154.    

Mimura, Y., & Mauldin, T. (2005). American young adults' rural-to-urban migration and timing of exits from poverty spells. Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 26(1), 55-76.

Sweaney, A.L., & Mauldin, T. (2003). America's Capital as the classroom. Housing and Society, 30(1), 51-58.

Mauldin, T., & Mimura, Y. (2001). Exit from poverty among rural and urban Black, Hispanic, and White young adults. The Review of Black Political Economy,, 29, 9-23.

Mauldin, T., Mimura, Y., & Lino, M. (2001). Parental Expenditures on children's education. Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 22(3), 221-241.

Koonce, J., & Mauldin, T.A. (2001). Differences in the availability of employer-provided fringe benefits among the working poor, near poor, and non-poor. Financial Counseling and Planning Journal, 12(1), 79-87.

Mauldin, T. A. (1996). Implications of family disruption for family resource management. In J. Varjonen, L. Engberg, & H. Steinmuller (Eds.), Family Resource Management Issues (pp. 77-83). International Federation of Home Economics.