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2021 Summer Data Splash
Jun 11, 2021 | Highlight

Twenty new datasets are added to the LIS Database. In addition to two new datasets are added to the LWS Database, and one dataset has been added to the ERFLIS Database.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/2021-summer-data-splash/

LIS Virtual Summer Workshop 2021 – Applications are Now Open!
May 05, 2021 | News

Applications for LIS Virtual Summer Workshop 2021 are Now Open!
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/lis-virtual-summer-workshop-2021-applications-are-now-open/

Postdoctoral and PhD positions in Political Science and Related Social Science Fields: Project on the Politics of Inequality & Housing
Apr 16, 2021 | News

Interested in the ways in which housing policy and housing markets drive inequalities across key societal groups within and across countries? The PROPEL project is recruiting Postdoctoral and PhD positions
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/postdoctoral-and-phd-positions-in-political-science-and-related-social-science-fields-project-on-the-politics-of-inequality-housing/

Announcement – LIS New Director Appointed!
Mar 16, 2021 | News

LIS welcomes Professor Peter Lanjouw as the new LIS Director!
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/announcement-lis-new-director-appointed/

Inequality Reduction in four Advanced Countries from 2000 to the late 2010s
Mar 16, 2021 | News

In this article, Munzi and Neugschwender take a closer look at changes in the income distribution from 2000 to the late 2010s in Canada, Germany, the UK, and the US.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/inequality-reduction-in-four-advanced-countries-from-2000-to-the-late-2010s/

Financial Information and Investment Decisions: Some Stylized Facts from the United States using the Luxembourg Wealth Study Database
Mar 16, 2021 | News

This brief writing aims to examine the sources of information utilized by households for investing decisions.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/financial-information-and-investment-decisions-some-stylized-facts-from-the-united-states-using-the-luxembourg-wealth-study-database/

Release of a New Book; Inequality in the developing world, edited by Gradín, Leibbrandt, and Tarp
Mar 16, 2021 | News

LIS is delighted to announce the publication of the book "Inequality in the Developing World" by Oxford University Press.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/release-of-a-new-book-inequality-in-the-developing-world-edited-by-gradin-leibbrandt-and-tarp/

2021 Spring Data Splash
Mar 12, 2021 | Highlight

Twenty-one new datasets are added to the LIS Database. In addition to two new datasets are added to the LWS Database.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/2021-spring-data-splash/

Inequality in the developing world
Mar 11, 2021 | Books

Read abstract Inequality has emerged as a key development challenge. It holds implications for economic growth and redistribution and translates into power asymmetries that can endanger human rights, create conflict, and embed social exclusion and chronic poverty. For these reasons, it underpins intense public and academic debates and has become a dominant policy concern within […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/books/inequality-in-the-developing-world/

Video recordings for the first (LIS)2ER workshop: “The Distributional Effects of Higher-Education Expansion” are now available!
Feb 24, 2021 | News

Video recordings for the first (LIS)2ER workshop "The Distributional Effects of Higher-Education Expansion” are now available!
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/video-recordings-for-the-first-lis2er-workshop-the-distributional-effects-of-higher-education-expansion-are-now-available/