Timothy M. Smeeding

Art & Sciences Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs
Director, Institute for Research on Poverty
3420 Sewell Social Sciences
(608) 890-1317
Fax: (608) 265-3119
smeeding@lafollette.wisc.edu

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Curriculum Vitae

Research Interest Statement
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). He is the founder and director emeritus of the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), which he began in 1983. He was awarded an honorary degree by Stockholm University for his work with the LIS in September, 2008. Smeeding is also co-editor of the 28 chapter Oxford University Press' forthcoming Handbook of Economic Inequality to be published in January 2009. In July 2008, Smeeding began a three year NSF funded project to add middle income countries such as China, Brazil and India to the LIS. When this project is finished it will for the first time add the capacity to monitor poverty and inequality in a comparable framework for over 50 nations, 30 of them middle income. Smeeding is also working on a project funded by the Russell Sage Foundation (where he was a Visiting Research Fellow in 2007-2008) to write two books on comparative economic and social intergenerational mobility in rich countries. One of the books will be based on a conference he plans to co-host with CDE in September, 2009. Smeeding is also a member of the external advisory board for a new Linnaeus Centre on Social Policy and Family Dynamics in Europe sponsored by the Swedish Research Council and running for 10 years.

CDE Research Theme Working Groups
Demography of Inequality
Data and Methodology