2024-40 Years of The Luxembourg Income Study Conference

The “40 Years of The Luxembourg Income Study Conference” took place on Friday, 26 May 2023 at Salle Paul Feidert, Campus Kirchberg from 9:00 to 18:00.

The conference was opened by the Minister of Education, Children and Youth of Luxembourg, Claude Meisch, and included several inequality scholars from within and outside of the LIS network among its speakers.

Programme

Please find the Conference Program here.

Selected Conference Presentations

2023 LIS 40th Anniversary Lecture: Connecting Income and Consumption Measurements of Inequality and Poverty: New Ideas and New Empirics
Richard Blundell, University College London

INEQUALITY TRENDS AROUND THE WORLD

RICH COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENTS

LIS The Luxembourg Income Study: 40 years,from10,000 meters, in 12 mins.
Tim Smeeding, La Follette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Women’s Economic Outcomes, Gender Disparities, and Public Policy: 40 Years of Research Based on the LIS/LWS Data
Janet Gornick, Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, CUNY

On (the Study of) the Distribution of Wealth
Markus Jäntti, Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University

Comment on Session “Inequality Trends Around The World”
Michael Förster, OECD

INEQUALITY IN LATIN AMERICA

Income Inequality in Latin America A brief assessment of the Distributional National Accounts Agenda
Facundo Alvaredo, Paris School of Economics (PSE)

Income inequality and immobility in Latin America: How much do we really know?
Francisco Ferreira, International Inequalities Institute (III), LSE

GLOBAL POVERTY AND INEQUALITY

LIS DATA AND WORLD BANK GLOBAL POVERTY MONITORING

Monitoring Global Poverty
Dean Jolliffe, World Bank

LIS data and World Bank Global Poverty Monitoring Few comments
Andrea Brandolini, Bank of Italy

GLOBAL INEQUALITY

Global Inequality : where do we stand?
François Bourguignon, Paris School of Economics (PSE)

Comments on “Global inequality: where do we stand?”
Stephen Jenkins, London School of Economics (LSE)

RESEARCH WITH LIS DATA

ALDI HAGENAARS AWARD WINNING PAPER
Structural Racism, Family Structure, and Black-White Inequality in Poverty: The Differential Impact
of the Legacy of Slavery among Single Mother & Married Parent Households
Regina Baker, University of Pennsylvania and Heather O’Connell, Louisiana State University

Inquiries

If you have any questions or inquiries, please contact workshop@lisdatacenter.org.