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Timothy Smeeding

Lee Rainwater Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics

University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Timothy Smeeding

Timothy M. Smeeding is the Lee Rainwater Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics. He was director of the Institute for Research on Poverty from 2008–2014. He was named the John Kenneth Galbraith Fellow, American Academy of Political and Social Science, in 2017, and was the founding director of the Luxembourg Income Study from 1983-2006.

Professor Smeeding’s recent work has been on social and economic mobility across generations, inequality of income, consumption and wealth, and poverty in national and cross-national contexts. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Funded Research

All Academic Awards 2024 and Prior
$68,000

Using linked Census data to examine occupation mobility in the United States

2018
All Academic Awards 2024 and Prior
$49,500

Wealth, income, and consumption: a microeconomic approach to a macroeconomic question

2014

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