迈克尔·格罗斯曼是纽约城市大学研究生中心经济学博士项目的杰出经济学教授、纽约办公室主任、健康经济学项目主任、国家经济研究局研究助理。他写了5本书，66篇期刊文章，35个章节。他的研究重点是美国成人、儿童和婴儿健康决定因素的经济模型;对青少年和年轻人吸烟和喝酒的经济方法;理性成瘾理论的实证应用儿科护理需求;社区卫生中心流动医疗服务的产生和成本;以及医院免税债券利率的决定因素。他最近完成的研究涉及消费税对孕妇吸烟的影响;青少年药物使用与危险性行为的关系 the economics of obesity; the effects of managed care on hospital prices for bypass surgery and for angioplasty; and the effects of parents’ schooling and the introduction of national health insurance on child health in Taiwan. His current research deals with the determinants of childhood obesity, the effects of insurance and quality on hospital prices for cancer surgery, racial and ethnic differences in physical activity, moral hazard in less invasive surgical technology for coronary artery disease, and neuroeconomics and alcohol control policies. He is a co-editor of the Review of Economics of the Household, an associate editor of the Journal of Health Economics, an associated editor of the Journal of Human Capital, a series co-editor of Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research (published by JAI, an imprint of Emerald Press), a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, Past President of the Eastern Economic Association, and Past President of the American Society of Health Economists. He is listed in the 2003 edition of Who’s Who in Economics. He is the past recipient of grants from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, the Ford Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. His current research is funded by grants from the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute of Nursing Research, the National Institute on Aging, and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. He has served as the sponsor and chair of 106 completed Ph.D. dissertations and has served as a committee member of an additional 161 completed Ph.D. dissertations. He is the inaugural recipient of the Victor Fuchs Award for lifetime contributions to the field of health economics, presented by the American Society of Health Economists in 2008. He also is Honorary Director of the Nankai-Grossman Center for Health Economics and Medical Insurance at Nankai University in Tianjin, People’s Republic of China.

他于2013年7月加入IZA担任研究员。