The LIS Database was heavily used in chapters of the report: "A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty"
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/launch-of-the-new-report-a-roadmap-to-reducing-child-poverty/
Archives
Five new datasets from Russia and United Kingdom have been added to the LIS database as well as one dataset from Canada to LWS
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/2018-winter-data-release/
LIS is delighted to announce that the entire series from a new Russian survey has been added to the LIS Database. The data are based on the 5 waves of the new Survey of the Population Income and participation in Social programs (PIS) carried out by the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat). The 5 waves […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/russia-data-from-the-new-rosstat-survey-have-been-added-to-lis/
One more data point for United Kingdom, namely UK16 (Wave X) have been added to the LIS Database. The datasets is based on the 2016-2017 wave of the Family Resources Survey (FRS) carried out by Office for National Statistics (ONS) sponsored by Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/united-kingdom-uk16-added-to-lis/
One more data point for United Kingdom, namely CA16 (Wave X) have been added to the LWS Database. The datasets is based on the 2016 wave of the Survey of Financial Securities (SFS) carried out by Statistics Canada. This brings the total number of Canadian datasets in LWS to four (CA99, CA05, CA12 and CA16).
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/canada-ca16-added-to-lws/
As a result of a research agreement signed between LIS and AFD, data from Côte d’Ivoire and Vietnam have been acquired by LIS
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/collaboration-with-the-afd-data-from-ivory-coast-and-vietnam/
ERF and LIS have joined forces in order to exploit the richness of the microdata offered by both institutions
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/erf-lis-conference-inequality-trends-around-the-mediterranean/
Opening session of the scientific day of the 13th International Conference of the AFD dedicated to presentations of LIS scholars
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/13th-international-conference-of-the-afd-inequality-and-social-cohesion/
The James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation awarded a gift of $1.2 million to the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/gcs-stone-center-launches-new-postdoctoral-scholars-program-on-socio-economic-inequality/
Four new datasets from Australia, Georgia and Serbia have been added to the LIS database as well as two Australian datasets to LWS
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/2018-fall-data-release/