Timothy M. Smeeding

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, 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.

CDE Research Area Affiliation:

Demography of Inequality

Selected Publications:

Johnson, David, and Timothy Smeeding. “Creating an Integrated System of Data and Statistics on Household Income, Consumption, and Wealth.” International Journal of Population Data Science 9, no. 5 (2024).

L’Esperance, Madelaine, Jevay Grooms, and Timothy M. Smeeding. “Patterns of Advance Child Tax Credit Receipt and Spending among Children with Retired or Disabled Household Members.“ Social Service Review 98, no. 1 (2024): 000-000.

Smeeding, Timothy M., Madelaine L’Esperance, Jevay Grooms, and Shogher Ohannessian. “W23-03: Social Security Administration’s Growing Interest in the Child Tax Credit and Other Child-Driven Income Support Programs.” (2023).