Grace Ortuzar is a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Notre Dame. Her primary field is Applied Microeconomics, with an emphasis on Public and Urban Economics. Her research agenda focuses on evaluating policies designed to benefit low-income tenants and reduce homelessness. In her work, she combines quasi-experimental and experimental methods with large administrative data.
She is an NBER graduate fellow in consumer financial management and has worked on several large-scale randomized controlled trials as a research associate at the Wilson-Sheehan Lab for Economics Opportunities. Her work has been supported by the Russell Sage Foundation and Notre Dame's Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts. Before graduate school, she studied Economics and Political Science at Indiana University and worked for RTI International.