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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:
February 4, 2013
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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
Timothy 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. Professor Smeeding’s recent publications include From Parents to Children, co-edited with John Ermicsch and Markus Jantti (Russell Sage Foundation, 2012); 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) The American Welfare State: Laggard or Leader? with Irv Garfinkel and Lee Rainwater (Oxford University Press, February 2010). In 2011 he published two additional edited volumes, Young Disadvantaged Men: Fathers, Families, Poverty, and Policy, with Irv Garfinkel and Ron Mincy (ANNALS Volume 635, May 2011), and Persistence, Privilege and Parenting: The Comparative Study of Intergenerational Mobility, with Robert Erikson and Markus Jantti (Russell Sage Foundation, 2011). His recent work has been on low-income men and their role as fathers; mobility across generations; and inequality of income consumption and wealth, and the measurement of poverty in a national and cross-national context.
Courses
- PA 888/974 Comparative and National Social Policy: spring 2013, spring 2012, spring 2011, spring 2010
- PA 974 Social Policy Analysis: Health, Education, and Welfare, spring 2009
La Follette School Working Paper Series
- Asset-Based Measurement of Poverty / La Follette School Working Paper No. 2010-004
Curriculum vitae
Luxembourg Income Study
Publications of Interest
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From Parents to Children, co-edited with John Ermicsch and Markus Jantti, Russell Sage Foundation, 2012 | |
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Persistence, Privilege and Parenting: The Comparative Study of Intergenerational Mobility, with Robert Erikson and Markus Jantti, Russell Sage Foundation, 2011 | |
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Young Disadvantaged Men: Fathers, Families, Poverty, and Policy, with Irv Garfinkel and Ron Mincy, ANNALS Volume 635, May 2011 | |
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Wealth and Welfare States: Is America a Laggard or Leader? Irwin Garfinkel, Lee Rainwater, and Timothy Smeeding, 2010, Oxford University Press | |
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The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality |
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The Future of the Family
Daniel P. Moynihan, Timothy M. Smeeding, and Lee Rainwater, editors |
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Poor Kids in a Rich Country: America's Children in Comparative Perspective by Lee Rainwater and Timothy M. Smeeding |
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The Economics of an Aging Society by Robert L. Clark, Richard V. Burkhauser, Marilyn Moon, Joseph F. Quinn, and Timothy M. Smeeding |
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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)