Dr. Grace Beals

Grace Beals is a political economist studying inequality, public policy, and household finance in the United States. Her research focuses on private credit markets and how changes in labor markets and the welfare state shape household reliance on credit. She uses large-scale quantitative analysis to trace the distributional effects of policy and market design. Grace is a Postdoctoral Associate at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy. Her work appears in Policy Studies Journal and Health Affairs Scholar. She holds a Ph.D. in American Politics from Cornell University.

Use for U.S. political-economy analysis, consumer policy, household financial security, welfare-state design, and distributional risk.