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Robert M. La Follette
School of Public Affairs
1225 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706

Telephone: 608.262.3581
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Last updated:
November 10, 2009

University Communications photo by Bryce Richter taken September 5, 2008.

Faculty: Timothy Smeeding

Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs, La Follette School of Public Affairs

Director, Institute for Research on Poverty

Office: 3420 Social Science Building
Phone: 608-890-1317
E-mail:

Institute for Research on Poverty
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706

Tim Smeeding is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs at the La Follette School of Public Affairs and director of the Institute for Research on Poverty. His research interests include the economics of public policy, especially social policy and at-risk populations; national and cross-national comparisons of income and wealth inequality; poverty; social policy; and social mobility. He is the founder and director emeritus of the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), which he began in 1983. Smeeding’s publications include the book Poor Kids in a Rich Country: America's Children in Comparative Perspective, co-authored with Lee Rainwater (Russell Sage Foundation, 2003), which is based on LIS data and places child poverty in the United States in an international context. Another of his books, The Future of the Family, co-edited by Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Lee Rainwater (Russell Sage Foundation, 2004; paperback ed., 2006), brings together the top scholars of family policy to take stock of the state of the family in the United States and address the ways in which public policy affects the family and vice versa. Immigration and the Transformation of Europe, co-edited with Craig Parsons (Cambridge University Press, 2006), examines a new kind of historic transformation underway in 21st-century Europe, in-flows of non-European people. Smeeding is also co-editor of the Oxford University Press' forthcoming Handbook of Economic Inequality to be published in January 2009.

Courses

PA 974 Social Policy Analysis: Health, Education, and Welfare, spring 2009

Curriculum vitae

Luxembourg Income Study

Publications of Interest

		The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality Wiemer Salverda, Brian Nolan, and Timothy M. Smeeding, editors Forthcoming, February 2009 Oxford University Press, ISBN: 978-0-19-923137-9

		The Future of the Family Daniel P. Moynihan, Timothy M. Smeeding, and Lee Rainwater, editors

		Poor Kids in a Rich Country: America's Children in Comparative Perspective by Lee Rainwater and Timothy M. Smeeding

		The Economics of an Aging Society by Robert L. Clark, Richard V. Burkhauser, Marilyn Moon, Joseph F. Quinn, and Timothy M. Smeeding

		Immigration and the Transformation of Europe by Craig A. Parsons and Timothy M. Smeeding

"Older Women's Income and Wealth Packages in Cross-National Perspective"
with Janet Gornick, Teresa Munzi, Eva Sierminska and Maurice Leach

"Twenty Years of Research on Income Inequality, Poverty, and Redistribution in the Developed World: Introduction and Overview," Socio-Economic Review (May 2004)