LIS data included in Khan Academy tutorial!
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/khan-academy-includes-lis-data-in-their-tutorials-in-partnership-with-the-new-york-times/
Archives
Ninth call for the InGRID-2 Visiting Grants is Now Open. Deadline for application is May 1, 2020.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/ninth-call-for-the-ingrid-2-visiting-grants-is-now-open/
Due to the current outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19), the 2020 LIS Summer Workshop has been cancelled.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/the-2020-lis-summer-workshop-is-cancelled/
Carlos Gradín showcases common inequality measures (Gini & Mean Log Deviation) decomposed by different social strata.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/why-is-inequality-in-south-africa-higher-than-in-germany/
In this article, Marco Ranaldi discusses a novel approach to distributional analysis.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/income-composition-inequality-a-novel-approach-to-distributional-analysis/
In this article, Arthur B. Kennickell develops illustrative examples applied to the Survey of Consumer Finances to highlight some of the problems in making comparisons of wealth inequality measures when there are specific defects in the measurement of the upper tail of the distribution.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/estimates-of-wealth-inequality-and-right-tail-coverage-an-illustration-of-oversampling-in-the-survey-of-consumer-finances/
Daniele Checchi, Petra Sauer, and Philippe Van Kerm host a stream on “Methodologies for comparative social policy analysis” at ESPAnet 2020 in Leuven.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/lis2er-stream-at-espanet-2020-leuven/
Video interviews from the first ERF-LIS Conference on "Inequality Trends Around the Mediterranean"
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/interviews-from-the-first-erf-lis-conference-on-inequality-trends-around-the-mediterranean/
Eight datasets are added to the LIS Database from Chile, Denmark, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Slovenia. Two new countries have been added to the LWS Database, Japan, and Luxembourg, so as one data point from Germany.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/2019-winter-data-release/
The Luxembourg Cooperation and LIS signed an agreement to provide unlimited access to LIS data to a large part of the United Nations agencies
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/press-release-signing-of-an-agreement-between-the-luxembourg-cooperation-and-lis-11-12-2019/