We are delighted to announce that we have acquired wealth microdata from Norway. As of today, two datasets, NO10 (Wave VIII) and NO13 (Wave IX) are available in the LWS Database. The datasets are derived from the fully register-based Household Income and Wealth Statistics maintained by Statistics Norway (SSB).
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/new-norvegian-datasets-added-to-the-lws-database/
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One new dataset from Germany, DE13, (WaveIX), has been added to the LIS Database. The dataset is from the 2014 data (wave 31) of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), which is carried out by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW). In addition to releasing the Wave IX dataset, the 7 earlier German datasets based […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/germany-2013-added-to-the-lis-database/
One new dataset from Norway, NO13, (WaveIX), has been added to the LIS Database. The dataset is derived from the fully register-based Household Income Statistics maintained by Statistics Norway (SSB). In addition to releasing the Wave IX dataset, the two earlier Norwegian LIS datasets based on the same source (NO10/07) have been revised for consistency. […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/norway-2013-added-to-the-lis-database/
A new leadership structure at LIS
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/new-leadership-structure-at-lis/
Director checchi@lisdatacenter.org bio Daniele Checchi, Professor of Economics in the University of Milan (Italy), is the overall Director and oversees all aspects of LIS’ work. Currently on leave from university duties, he is since January 2020 also the Director of the Research Center of the Italian National Social Security Institute. He holds a MA in […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/uncategorized/daniele-checchi-3/
Assistant Director of Operations omar@lisdatacenter.org bio Heba Omar holds a Bachelor’s degree in Statistics from the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University. She then obtained a Master’s degree in Biostatistics and Demography from the Institute of Statistical Studies and Research at Cairo University. Her master’s thesis focused on The Development of Multidimensional […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/team/lis-staff-luxembourg/heba-omar/
Senior Scholar, LIS Email checchi@lisdatacenter.org Daniele Checchi is Professor of Economics at the University of Milan in Italy, currently on leave from university duties, working at Italian National agency for the Evaluation of the University system and serves as Director of the Luxembourg Office of LIS. His research interests, published in journals like Economic Policy, […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/team/senior-scholars/daniele-checchi-2/
Senior Scholar, LIS Leslie McCall will join the Graduate Center faculty in January 2017. She will also become the Associate Director of the Stone Center.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/team/senior-scholars/leslie-mccall/
Senior Adviser in the World Bank’s Development Research Group, where he oversees the Bank’s research programs on poverty, inequality and agriculture, presented the 2016 LIS Summer Lecture:
Measuring Global Poverty: Past, Present and Future.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/lecture-series/francisco-ferreira/
One new dataset from Finland, FI13, (WaveIX), has been added to the LIS Database. The dataset is from the 2014 wave of the Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC), which is carried out by Statistics Finland. In addition to releasing the Wave IX dataset, 5 earlier Finnish datasets (FI10/07/04/00/95) have been revised for consistency. […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/finland-2013-added-to-the-lis-database/