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Inequality Expert Miles Corak Joins the Stone Center

Miles Corak, professor of economics, appointed to the faculty of the Graduate Center of CUNY, effective January 2018.

December 13, 2017 | News and Events | read more »

New Wealth Research Project Launched

The Graduate Center Wealth Project, a research initiative based in the Stone Center, was officially launched this autumn.

December 13, 2017 | News and Events | read more »

Visiting scholars at LIS

LIS welcomed, through the InGRID-2 project, Ana Suárez Álvarez PhD student at the University of Oviedo.

December 12, 2017 | News | read more »

The October 2017 IMF Fiscal Monitor has been published

Publication of IMF Fiscal Monitor, focusing on inequality issues, makes use of the LIS Database for its analyses

November 29, 2017 | News and Events | read more »

Stone Center, home to the US Office of LIS, welcomed the 2017 ECINEQ Meeting

The Seventh Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) took place at the CUNY Graduate Center, 17-19 July 2017

September 9, 2017 | News and Events | read more »

We mourn the loss of Prof. Dr. Dieter Ferring

It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of Prof. Dr. Dieter Ferring

August 7, 2017 | News | read more »

Synopsis of the LIS Summer Workshop 2017

the LIS Introductory Summer Workshop was held on 18-22 June 2017 at the Belval Campus in Esch-Belval (Luxembourg)

July 20, 2017 | News | read more »

InGRID2: Successful Visiting Scholars Program Continues

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 […]

June 13, 2017 | News | read more »

PhD Scholarships to Work with LIS Data in Sydney

The University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia is offering scholarships for students to undertake research on poverty and inequality using LIS

June 13, 2017 | News | read more »

Inaugural Lee Rainwater Memorial Lecture

Earlier this spring, the inaugural Lee Rainwater Memorial Lecture was given by LIS former president Robert Erikson

June 12, 2017 | News and Events | read more »