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. Dr. Smeeding's extensive publications include From Parents to Children, co-edited with John Ermicsch and Markus Jantti (2012); The Handbook of Economic Inequality, co-edited with Brian Nolan and Weimer Salverda (2009); and Poor Kids in a Rich Country: America's Children in Comparative Perspective, co-authored with Lee Rainwater (2003). In 2011, he published two additional edited volumes, Young Disadvantaged Men: Fathers, Families, Poverty, and Policy, with Irv Garfinkel and Ron Mincy, and Persistence, Privilege and Parenting: The Comparative Study of Intergenerational Mobility, with Robert Erikson and Markus Jantti. His recent work has been on low-income men and their role as fathers, mobility across generations, and inequality of income consumption and wealth.
