$68,000
Using linked Census data to examine occupation mobility in the United States
2018
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Timothy Smeeding
Lee Rainwater Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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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
$49,500
Wealth, income, and consumption: a microeconomic approach to a macroeconomic question
2014
Timothy Smeeding’s Working Papers
Academic
Estimating the marginal propensity to consume using the distributions of income, consumption, and wealth (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers APR 19, 2018
By: Jonathan Fisher, David Johnson, Jonathan Latner, Timothy Smeeding, Jeffrey Thompson
Economic Equity & Opportunity
Macroeconomics & Economic Measurement
Academic
Inequality in 3D: Income, consumption, and wealth (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers SEP 7, 2016
By: Jonathan Fisher, David Johnson, Timothy Smeeding, Jeffrey Thompson
Economic Equity & Opportunity
Academic
Inequality and mobility using income, consumption, and wealth for the same individuals (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers SEP 7, 2016
By: Jonathan Fisher, David Johnson, Jonathan Latner, Timothy Smeeding, Jeffrey Thompson
Economic Equity & Opportunity
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