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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Overview

Timothy M. Smeeding is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences with a focus on employment and welfare studies, financial literacy, pension and retirement analysis, as well as health disparities and outcomes.

The scientist's recent publications include several articles covering a variety of topics related to income, consumption, and social systems. Notable papers are: "Understanding the effects of Covid-19 through a life course lens" (2020) published in Advances in Life Course Research; "Estimating the marginal propensity to consume using the distributions of income, consumption, and wealth" (2020) in the Journal of Macroeconomics; "Inequality in 3-D: Income, Consumption, and Wealth" (2021) appearing in the Review of Income and Wealth; "Poverty, work, and welfare: Cutting the Gordian knot" (2020) published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; and "The Long Recovery from the Great Recession: An Introduction" (2021) from The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

Research contributions cover several fields of study including:

  • Social Sciences

The subfields of study addressed by their work include:

  • General Health Professions
  • Accounting
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Demography
  • Gender Studies

The main topics explored in their publications are:

  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
  • Retirement, Disability, and Employment
  • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Global Health Care Issues

Frequent co-authors contributing to their work include:

  • Jonathan D. Fisher
  • David Johnson
  • Jeffrey P. Thompson
  • Judith Bartfeld
  • Craig Gundersen

The scholar has published repeatedly in certain venues such as:

  • The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (3 publications)
  • Advances in Life Course Research
  • Journal of Macroeconomics
  • Review of Income and Wealth
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

In recognition of their academic contributions, they were named a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Income distribution in OECD countries: evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study

    A.B. Atkinson;Paris eng Oecd;L. Rainwater;T.M. Smeeding

  • Cross-National Comparisons of Earnings and Income Inequality

    Peter Gottschalk;Timothy M. Smeeding

  • EQUIVALENCE SCALES, WELL‐BEING, INEQUALITY, AND POVERTY: SENSITIVITY ESTIMATES ACROSS TEN COUNTRIES USING THE LUXEMBOURG INCOME STUDY (LIS) DATABASE

    Brigitte Buhmann;Lee Rainwater;Guenther Schmaus;Timothy M. Smeeding

  • The Role of Higher Education in Social Mobility

    Robert H. Haveman;Timothy M. Smeeding

  • Are Parents Investing Less Time in Children? Trends in Selected Industrialized Countries

    Anne H. Gauthier;Timothy M. Smeeding;Frank F. Furstenberg

  • Empirical evidence on income inequality in industrialized countries

    Peter Thomas Gottschalk;Timothy Michael Smeeding

  • “Fair” Inequality? Attitudes toward Pay Differentials: The United States in Comparative Perspective:

    Lars Osberg;Timothy Smeeding

  • The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality

    Wiemer Salverda;Brian Nolan;Timothy M. Smeeding

  • Asset-Based Measurement of Poverty

    Andrea Brandolini;Silvia Magri;Timothy M. Smeeding

  • Poor Kids in a Rich Country: America's Children in Comparative Perspective

    Lee Rainwater;Timothy M. Smeeding

  • Public Policy, Economic Inequality, and Poverty: The United States in Comparative Perspective*

    Timothy M. Smeeding

  • POVERTY, TNEQUALTTY, AND FAMTLY LIVING STANDARDS IMPACTS ACROSS SEVEN NATIONS: THE EFFECT OF NONCASH SUBSIDIES FOR HEALTH, EDUCATION AND HOUSING

    Timothy M. Smeeding;Peter Saunders;John Coder;Stephen Jenkins

  • Understanding the Effects of COVID-19 Through a Life Course Lens

    Richard A. Settersten;Laura Bernardi;Juho Härkönen;Toni C. Antonucci

  • Poor people in rich nations: The United States in comparative perspective

    Timothy Smeeding

  • RELATIVE INEQUALITY AND POVERTY IN GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATES USING ALTERNATIVE EQUIVALENCE SCALES

    Richard V. Burkhauser;Timothy M. Smeeding;Joachim Merz

  • United States Poverty in a Cross-National Context

    Timothy Smeeding;Lee Rainwater;Gary Burtles

  • Globalization, Inequality, and the Rich Countries of the G-20: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)

    Timothy M. Smeeding

  • The EITC: Expectation, Knowledge, Use, and Economic and Social Mobility

    Timothy M. Smeeding;Katherine Ross Phillips;Michael O'Connor

  • Time Use at Older Ages: Cross-National Differences

    Anne H. Gauthier;Timothy M. Smeeding

  • Chapter 5 Empirical evidence on income inequality in industrialized countries

    Peter Gottschalk;Timothy M. Smeeding

  • Toward a Uniform Definition of Household Income

    Timothy M. Smeeding;Daniel H. Weinberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard V. Burkhauser
Richard V. Burkhauser Cornell University
Janet C. Gornick
Janet C. Gornick City University of New York
Irwin Garfinkel
Irwin Garfinkel Columbia University
Brian Nolan
Brian Nolan University of Oxford
Stephen P. Jenkins
Stephen P. Jenkins London School of Economics and Political Science
John Yinger
John Yinger Syracuse University
Markus Jäntti
Markus Jäntti Stockholm University
Lars Osberg
Lars Osberg Dalhousie University
Greg J. Duncan
Greg J. Duncan University of California, Irvine
Peter Saunders
Peter Saunders University of New South Wales

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