Archives for December 2017

Winter Data Releases
Dec 15, 2017 | News and Events

One new dataset from Uruguay and two datasets from Sweden have been added to respectively the LIS and the LWS Databases.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/winter-data-releases/

Uruguay – A New Dataset Added to the LIS Database
Dec 15, 2017 | Highlight

One new dataset from Uruguay, UY16 (Wave X) has been added to the LIS Database. The dataset is based on the 2016 wave of the Continuous Household Survey (ECH) carried out by National Institute of Statistics (INE). In addition, the earlier datasets based on the same survey (UY07, UY10 and UY13) were substantially revised for […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/uruguay-a-new-dataset-added-to-the-lis-database/

Sweden – New Datasets Added to the LWS Database
Dec 15, 2017 | Highlight

Two new datasets, SE02 (Wave V) and SE05 (Wave VI) have been added to the LWS Database. The datasets are based on the 2002 and 2005 of the Household Finance Survey (HEK) carried out by Statistics Sweden.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/sweden-new-datasets-added-to-the-lws-database/

LIS commissioned for UN Women flagship reports
Dec 13, 2017 | News

LIS provides a background paper to UN Women’s Research & Data Section to feed into Progress of the World’s Women Report 2018, and Gender Equality in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 2018.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/lis-commissioned-for-un-women-flagship-reports/

Inequality Expert Miles Corak Joins the Stone Center
Dec 13, 2017 | News

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/

New Wealth Research Project Launched
Dec 13, 2017 | News

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/

Visiting scholars at LIS
Dec 12, 2017 | Ignore on home

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/