Michal Grinstein-Wei

Biographic Data

ID2819183
NAMEMichal Grinstein-Wei
GIVEN NAMESMichal
FAMILY NAMEGrinstein-Wei
SIGNATUREGRINSTEIN-WEI M
AFFILIATIONSWashington University in St. Louis
ORCID0000-0003-2987-8979
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS45
TOTAL CITATIONS230
AUTHOR COUNT45
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX9

  • Pinching Pennies or Money to Burn

    J Jabbari, J J Jackson et al.ARTICLESocial Psychology2024References: 3

    We examined grit in the context of a wealth-building situation: tax refund savings. Specifically, we leveraged a novel dataset combining longitudinal survey data with administrative tax data for a sample of 6,904 low- and moderate-income (LMI) tax filers in the United States. After statistically balancing individuals on grit across a range of important characteristics with propensity score weighting, we found that grit was associated with better …

  • Which Side (of the Balance Sheet) Are You On? Household Financial Resources and Participation in the 2020 Protests

    Selina Miller, Samuel Roll et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Sociology & Social…2024

    The summer of 2020 was marked by widespread protests. Though research has often examined the predictors of protest participation, there exists little work examining the relationship between different types of wealth and protesting. Drawing on resource-based theories of protest participation and asset-based theories of civic engagement, we constructed regression models disentangling relationships between income, liquid assets, investment assets, h…

  • Nothing to show for it

    Open AccessJ Jabbari, Mathieu Despard et al.ARTICLEResearch in Higher Education2023

  • How does social support relate to emotional availability for learning during Covid-19? A multi-group structural equation model of university students from the U.S. and Israel

    Open AccessJ Jabbari, Melissa L Bessaha et al.ARTICLESocial Psychology of Education2023References: 6

  • Emergency Savings among Persistently Poor Households

    Open AccessSamuel Roll, Mathieu Despard et al.ARTICLESocial Work Research2023References: 9

    Low-income households struggle to accumulate emergency savings, which increases economic vulnerability in the face of unexpected events like expensive car repairs. This vulnerability may be even greater among persistently low-income households, which might benefit most from building emergency savings using tax refunds. This study examined the effects of randomly assigned behavioral interventions that incorporated a choice architecture manipulatio…

  • Assessing the Short-Term Stability of Financial Well-Being in Low- and Moderate-Income Households

    Open AccessSamuel Roll, Olga Kondratjeva et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family and Economic…2022

  • Household Spending Patterns and Hardships during Covid-19

    Open AccessSamuel Roll, Yung Chun et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family and Economic…2022

  • Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Housing Instability During the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Open AccessYung Chun, Samuel Roll et al.ARTICLEJournal of Economics Race and…2022Cited by: 3References: 10

  • Perceptions of School Quality and Student Learning During the Pandemic

    Open AccessJ Jabbari, Yung Chun et al.ARTICLESocius Sociological Research for…2022References: 11

    Given the inequitable distribution of resources across school, neighborhood, and home contexts in the United States, lower resourced students may have had fewer opportunities to learn during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, which may have caused previous disadvantages to accumulate during the pandemic. Nevertheless, research has yet to comprehensively explore how school, neighborhood, and home contexts— together—relate to perceptions of sch…

  • Financial Shocks and Financial Well-Being

    Open AccessSam Bufe, Samuel Roll et al.ARTICLESocial Indicators Research2022Cited by: 6References: 59

  • Household Savings Decisions in Israel’s Child Savings Program

    Open AccessMaya Haran Rosen, Ofir Pinto et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family and Economic…2021

  • Material Hardship among Lower-Income Households

    Mathieu Despard, Valerie Taing et al.ARTICLEJournal of Poverty2021Cited by: 2References: 5

    Lower income households are at risk for material hardship, particularly amidst the economic fallout of COVID-19. Where one lives (e.g., suburb, small town) may affect this risk due to variable access to resources, yet the evidence is mixed concerning the influence of place. We used a pooled, national cross-sectional sample of 66,046 lower-income tax filers to examine differences in material hardship in rural, small town, micropolitan, and urban a…

  • Introduction

    Open AccessC Graham, Michal Grinstein-Wei et al.ARTICLEThe Annals of the American…2021

    COVID; inequality; public health; racial differences; vulnerability

  • Do Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Savings and Job Loss during Covid-19 Explain Disparities in Housing Hardships? A Moderated Mediation Analysis

    Open AccessMichal Grinstein-Wei, Michal Grinstein-Weiss et al.ARTICLEThe Annals of the American…2021Cited by: 1References: 33

    Despite the array of public programs offered to help households mitigate the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, many still needed to rely on savings, credit, or other assets to make ends meet. This reality may exacerbate existing social and economic inequities because racial and ethnic minorities often have lower access to assets and credit than white households. We use longitudinal national survey data to explore the extent to which diff…

  • The Saving for Every Child Program in Israel

    Michal Grinstein-Wei, Olga Kondratjeva et al.ARTICLEAsia Pacific Journal of Social…2019Cited by: 2References: 5

    In 2017, the Israeli government implemented a universal child development account programme – the Saving for Every Child Program (SECP) – which establishes a personal savings account for every Israeli child and provides monthly deposits until the child turns 18. The SECP has the potential to provide substantial assets when children reach adulthood, but the benefits depend on parents’ investment choices. The unique programme’s nature presents oppo…

  • Enrollment and participation in a universal child savings program

    Open AccessMichal Grinstein-Wei, Michal Grinstein-Weiss et al.ARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review2019References: 45

  • Financial Shocks, Liquid Assets, and Material Hardship in Low- and Moderate-Income Households

    Open AccessMathieu Despard, Michal Grinstein-Wei et al.ARTICLEJournal of Economics Race and…2018Cited by: 9References: 14

  • The Mediating Role of Assets in Explaining Hardship Risk among Households Experiencing Financial Shocks

    Open AccessMathieu Despard, Mathieu R Despard et al.ARTICLESocial Work Research2018Cited by: 12References: 10

    Journal Article The Mediating Role of Assets in Explaining Hardship Risk among Households Experiencing Financial Shocks Get access Mathieu R Despard, Mathieu R Despard Address correspondence to Mathieu R. Despard, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis, 1 Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130; e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Shenyang Guo, Sh…

  • Effects of a Tax-Time Savings Experiment on Material and Health Care Hardship among Low-Income Filers

    Mathieu Despard, Samuel H Taylor et al.ARTICLEJournal of Poverty2017Cited by: 2References: 9

    Material and health care hardship is common among households with low incomes and is associated with a host of adverse outcomes but can be mitigated with having savings. The authors assessed the effects of online tax-time savings interventions informed by behavioral economics on hardship among a sample of low- and moderate-income tax filers (N = 4,738). The authors find that filers who received an intervention had a statistically significant, low…

  • Do Tax-Time Savings Deposits Reduce Hardship Among Low-Income Filers? A Propensity Score Analysis

    Open AccessMichal Grinstein-Wei, Mathieu Despard et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Society for Social…2016Cited by: 3References: 6

    Objective: A lack of emergency savings renders low-income households vulnerable to material hardships resulting from unexpected expenses or loss of income. Having emergency savings helps these households respond to unexpected events, maintain consumption, and avoid high-cost credit products. Because many low-income households receive sizable federal tax refunds, tax time is an opportunity for these households to allocate a portion of refunds to s…

  • Student debt and hardship

    Open AccessMathieu Despard, Dana C Perantie et al.ARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review2016Cited by: 4References: 45

  • Racial disparities in education debt burden among low- and moderate-income households

    Open AccessMichal Grinstein-Wei, Michal Grinstein-Weiss et al.ARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review2016Cited by: 7References: 48

  • Individual Development Accounts and Homeownership among Low-income Adults with Disabilities

    Open AccessJin Huang, Margaret Lombe et al.ARTICLEJournal of Applied Social Science2015

    We examined the long-term effects of Individual Development Accounts (IDAs), savings accounts that match funds deposited by participants for qualified purposes, on homeownership rates among study participants with disabilities in a randomized experiment. Results from a 10-year follow-up of the IDAs indicate that rates of homeownership were nearly 10 percentage points higher for treatment participants with disabilities than for control-group membe…

  • The Impact of Homeownership on Marriage and Divorce

    Michal Grinstein-Wei, M Grinstein-Weiss et al.ARTICLESocial Work Research2014Cited by: 7References: 9

    This research examined the relationship between homeownership and the likelihood of marriage or divorce. Drawing on exchange theory and an economic understanding of marriage, the authors hypothesized that single homeowners are less likely to marry than single renters, whereas married homeowners are less likely to divorce than married renters. These hypotheses were tested using longitudinal data collected from a group of lower income homeowners an…

  • Future Orientation as a Mediator between Assets and Perceived Household Economic Stability

    David Ansong, Gina Chowa et al.ARTICLESocial Work Research2013Cited by: 4References: 6

    This article tests the mediation effects of future orientation in the relationship between assets and perceived economic stability. The first model, proposed by Sherraden, presents the direct effects of assets on perceived economic stability without any intermediary role of future orientation. The second model presents a model of asset effects on perceived economic stability that is fully mediated by future orientation as proposed by Shobe and Pa…