A call for papers of a special issue of the Journal of Income Distribution has been launched. In this special issue, LIS/LWS scholars are offered the opportunity to publish their research in one volume in order to broaden the discussion and enhance our knowledge from inequality and poverty to labor market participation, from saving patterns […]
The application is due 26 March 2017
Remembrances from LIS’ friends
François Bourguignon has been named President of the Board of LIS: Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg.
A new powerful documentation system of the LIS and LWS databases is now available
We won’t see his like again
A new leadership structure at LIS
Branko Milanovic and Paul Krugman on stage at CUNY
We are pleased to announce the founding of the Lee Rainwater Memorial Lecture Series. We are launching this lecture series in honor of Lee Rainwater – our colleague, coauthor, mentor, and friend. The series will recognize Lee’s brilliant and creative academic career as well as his role as founding Research Director of the Luxembourg Income […]
We have updated the LIS / New York Times Income Distribution Database that we added to the LIS website in April 2014. This database, which contains detailed information on the distribution and growth of household income across countries, has been updated to include later microdata and to change from 2005 to 2011 PPPs. We have […]