I received my  PhD in Economics from the University of Notre Dame in 2026. I am an applied microeconomist with research interests in public, urban, and health economics. 

I am currently working with Notre Dame's Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) on a national study on the impact of flexible financial assistance and will join the NYU Furman Center as a Postdoctoral Economics Fellow this fall.

I am an NBER graduate fellow and an affiliate of the University of Chicago's Inclusive Economy Lab (IEL) and LEO. My research has been supported by the Russell Sage Foundation and Notre Dame's Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts. Before graduate school, I studied Economics and Political Science at Indiana University and worked for RTI International.

Email : mortuzar@nd.edu

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