Timothy Smeeding

University of Wisconsin Madison
Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics

Tim Smeeding Timothy M. (Tim) Smeeding is the Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Director of the Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) since 2008. Professor Smeeding's recent publications include : Young Disadvantaged Men: Fathers, Families, Poverty, and Policy( ANNALS, Volume 635, May 2011); Persistence, Privilege and Parenting: The Comparative Study of Intergenerational Mobility, (co-edited with Robert Erikson and Markus Jantti (Russell Sage Foundation, in press ); the Handbook of Economic Inequality , co-edited with Brian Nolan and Weimer Salverda (Oxford University Press , April, 2009); Poor Kids in a Rich Country: America's Children in Comparative Perspective, co-authored with Lee Rainwater (Russell Sage Foundation, 2003); The Future of the Family, co-edited by Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Lee Rainwater (Russell Sage Foundation, 2004; paperback ed., 2006) and The American Welfare State: Laggard or Leader?, co-authored with Irv Garfinkel and Lee Rainwater (Oxford University Press, February 2010). His recent research has been on low income men and their role as fathers; measuring poverty within Wisconsin; mobility across generations; and inequality, wealth, and poverty in a national and cross-national context

Working Group

Inequality: Measurement, Interpretation, and Policy (MIP)

Additional Information

Email: smeeding@lafollette.wisc.edu
Homepage: http://www.lafollette.wisc.edu/facultystaff/smeeding-timothy.html