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Collaboration with the AFD – data from Côte d’Ivoire and Vietnam

As a result of a research agreement signed between LIS and AFD, data from Côte d’Ivoire and Vietnam have been acquired by LIS

December 13, 2018 | News and Events | read more »

ERF-LIS conference: Inequality trends around the Mediterranean

ERF and LIS have joined forces in order to exploit the richness of the microdata offered by both institutions

December 13, 2018 | News and Events | read more »

13th International Conference of the AFD “Inequality and Social Cohesion”

Opening session of the scientific day of the 13th International Conference of the AFD dedicated to presentations of LIS scholars

December 13, 2018 | News and Events | read more »

GC’s Stone Center Launches New Postdoctoral Scholars Program on Socio-Economic Inequality

The James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation awarded a gift of $1.2 million to the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality

November 30, 2018 | News and Events | read more »

Call for papers – “Why inequality differs so much across countries?”

The 2019 edition of the annual Research on Economic Inequality series has special interest in the question “Why inequality differs so much across countries?”

September 14, 2018 | News and Events | read more »

ECSR Thematic Workshop “Wealth Inequality and Mobility”

Two-day workshop organized by the Institute for Research on Socio-Economic Inequality (IRSEI) at the University of Luxembourg (in partnership with LIS/LWS)

September 14, 2018 | News and Events | read more »

Book on Wealth and Homeownership

In almost every country, wealth is predominantly constituted by housing equity, but what are the possible risks and how does wealth accumulation vary across countries?

September 7, 2018 | News | read more »

JID special issue from the 2017 LIS/LWS user conference

Special Issue Comparative wealth and income research edited by Daniele Checchi and Janet Gornick is now available online

August 31, 2018 | News and Events | read more »

New complementary database: Routine Task Intensity and Offshorability for the LIS

This database allows LIS users to retrieve very detailed and standardized occupation categories, following the international two-digit coding of the ISCO-88 standard

July 27, 2018 | News and Events | read more »

Workshop on “Harmonization of Household Surveys, Fiscal Data and National Accounts” at the Paris School of Economics

The workshop explored methods aimed at adjusting the top of income and wealth distributions

June 15, 2018 | News | read more »