Michal Grinstein-Weiss

Grinstein-Weiss (2016)

Michal Grinstein-Weiss is an Israeli - American economist and university lecturer .

Career, research and teaching

Grinstein-Weiss studied first at the University of Haifa , where they in 1996 as Bachelor of Arts and in 1999 as a Master of Arts in Social Sciences graduate . She then moved to the United States, where she settled in the Greater St. Louis area. There she completed her Ph.D. in 2004 at Washington University in St. Louis. Degree in Social Sciences, the following year she graduated from the University of Missouri-St. Louis as a Master in Economics . She then went to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as an Assistant Professor, where she was promoted to Associate Professor in 2010 . In 2012 she returned to Washington University in St. Louis, where she was appointed full professor in 2015 . Between 2012 and 2016 she was also a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution .

The focus of the work of Grinstein-Weiss lies in the cross-sectional areas of various academic disciplines, for example in the area of ​​tension between behavioral economics and health sciences in order to translate translational research results into concrete recommendations for action for companies and individuals to promote a health-conscious life. She also researches the conditions for financial well-being, especially with regard to inclusion . She was one of the leading researchers in a long-term study on the American Dream Demonstration Program , in which, on the basis of a program that ran between 1997 and 2002, options for individual financial support, especially for low-income earners, were analyzed.

Grinstein-Weiss is on the editorial board of the Journal of Consumer Affairs , Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research, and Journal of Children and Poverty . She advised the Israeli Ministry of Social Affairs and the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland , among others .

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