Jeffrey Weinstein is a Senior Financial Economist in the Division of Depositor and Consumer Protection at the FDIC. His research interests include consumer finance, economics of education, public economics, and urban economics. Since joining the FDIC in 2014, Jeffrey has worked on economic inclusion research projects, including the biennial FDIC National Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked Households. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Syracuse University. Jeffrey received a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 2008 and a B.A. in Economics and a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Maryland in 2002.
Research Topics
Consumer Finance; Economics of Education; Public Economics; Urban Economics
Curriculum Vitae
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), 2021 FDIC National Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked Households (October 2022)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), How America Banks: Household Use of Banking and Financial Services, 2019 FDIC Survey (October 2020)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), 2017 FDIC National Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked Households (October 2018)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), 2015 FDIC National Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked Households (October 2016)
Ryan M. Goodstein, Alicia Lloro, Sherrie L.W. Rhine, and Jeffrey M. Weinstein. 2021. “What Accounts for Racial and Ethnic Differences in Credit Use?” Journal of Consumer Affairs. Vol. 55, no. 2, 389-416.
Jeffrey M. Weinstein. 2016. “The Impact of School Racial Compositions on Neighborhood Racial Compositions: Evidence from School Redistricting,” Economic Inquiry. Vol. 54, no. 3, 1365-1382.
Kalena E. Cortes, Wael S. Moussa, and Jeffrey M. Weinstein. 2013. “Educating Bright Students in Urban Schools,” Economics of Education Review. Vol. 37, 286-297.
Justine S. Hastings and Jeffrey M. Weinstein. 2008. “Information, School Choice, and Academic Achievement: Evidence from Two Experiments,” Quarterly Journal of Economics. Vol. 123, no. 4, 1373-1414.
Justine S. Hastings, Thomas J. Kane, Douglas O. Staiger, and Jeffrey M. Weinstein. 2007. “The Effect of Randomized School Admissions on Voter Participation,” Journal of Public Economics. Vol. 91, no. 5-6, 915-937.
Kalena E. Cortes, Wael S. Moussa, and Jeffrey M. Weinstein. “Making the Grade: The Impact of Classroom Behavior on Academic Achievement.”