Miles Corak, professor of economics, appointed to the faculty of the Graduate Center of CUNY, effective January 2018.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/inequality-expert-miles-corak-joins-the-stone-center/
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The Graduate Center Wealth Project, a research initiative based in the Stone Center, was officially launched this autumn.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/new-wealth-research-project-launched/
LIS welcomed, through the InGRID-2 project, Ana Suárez Álvarez PhD student at the University of Oviedo.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/visiting-scholars-at-lis/
Publication of IMF Fiscal Monitor, focusing on inequality issues, makes use of the LIS Database for its analyses
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/the-october-2017-imf-fiscal-monitor-has-been-published/
The Seventh Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) took place at the CUNY Graduate Center, 17-19 July 2017
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/stone-center-home-to-the-us-office-of-lis-welcomed-the-2017-ecineq-meeting/
It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of Prof. Dr. Dieter Ferring
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/we-mourn-the-loss-of-prof-dr-dieter-ferring/
the LIS Introductory Summer Workshop was held on 18-22 June 2017 at the Belval Campus in Esch-Belval (Luxembourg)
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/synopsis-of-the-lis-summer-workshop-2017/
The second bid of InGRID – InGRID2 project – to the EU call of Horizon 2020 has been approved. The InGRID infrastructure, which brings together 19 academic partners from Europe, aims to integrate and optimise the existing European Data Infrastructure and accompanying expertise, through joint research, the organisation of expert workshops as well as a […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/ingrid2-successful-visiting-scholars-program-continues/
The University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia is offering scholarships for students to undertake research on poverty and inequality using LIS
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/phd-scholarships-to-work-with-lis-data-in-sydney/
Earlier this spring, the inaugural Lee Rainwater Memorial Lecture was given by LIS former president Robert Erikson
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/inaugural-lee-rainwater-memorial-lecture-given-by-robert-erikson/