Biography About I am a demographer and researcher in the field of aging. My primary research interests focus on understanding the long-term consequences of early life conditions on older adult health and mortality in low, middle, and high-income countries. This includes SES health disparities, multi-generational, genetic and epigenetic determinants of health. My foundational work in …
Homepage School of Social Work More information Curriculum Vitae Biography About My background and research make me well-suited to be affiliated with the Center for Demography and Ecology (CDE). I am a social worker who has been trained in social welfare, and my research focuses on the economic wellbeing of single-parent families. Much of my work examines …
Homepage Department of Sociology More information Curriculum vitae Biography About Survey research provides key data resources for conducting population science. My research over the last thirty years is concerned with two broad areas: (1) standardized measurement in surveys, including the impact of respondents’ life experiences, instrument design, question characteristics, and interviewer behavior on measurement; (2) …
Home page Department of Public Affairs Additional information Curriculum Vitae Biography Timothy M. (Tim) Smeeding is the Lee Rainwater Distinguished Professor Emeritus 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, …
Biography About I have a long history of advising graduate students in Economics and occasionally other social science disciplines, many of whom have participated in the demography training program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. I am a former Director of the Center for Demography and Ecology (CDE, 2007-2012) and a current member of the CDE …