One new dataset from Norway, NO13, (WaveIX), has been added to the LIS Database. The dataset is derived from the fully register-based Household Income Statistics maintained by Statistics Norway (SSB). In addition to releasing the Wave IX dataset, the two earlier Norwegian LIS datasets based on the same source (NO10/07) have been revised for consistency. […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/norway-2013-added-to-the-lis-database/
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A new leadership structure at LIS
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/new-leadership-structure-at-lis/
Director checchi@lisdatacenter.org bio Daniele Checchi, Professor of Economics in the University of Milan (Italy), is the overall Director and oversees all aspects of LIS’ work. Currently on leave from university duties, he is since January 2020 also the Director of the Research Center of the Italian National Social Security Institute. He holds a MA in […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/uncategorized/daniele-checchi-3/
Assistant Director of Operations omar@lisdatacenter.org bio Heba holds a master’s degree in Biostatistics and Demography on the topic of The Development of the Multidimensional Poverty Indices from the Institute of Statistical Studies and Research at Cairo University, Egypt. Before joining the LIS data team, she worked as a Senior Statistician at the Economic Research Forum […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/team/lis-staff-luxembourg/heba-omar/
Senior Scholar, LIS Email checchi@lisdatacenter.org Daniele Checchi is Professor of Economics at the University of Milan in Italy, currently on leave from university duties, working at Italian National agency for the Evaluation of the University system and serves as Director of the Luxembourg Office of LIS. His research interests, published in journals like Economic Policy, […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/team/senior-scholars/daniele-checchi-2/
Senior Scholar, LIS Leslie McCall will join the Graduate Center faculty in January 2017. She will also become the Associate Director of the Stone Center.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/team/senior-scholars/leslie-mccall/
Senior Adviser in the World Bank’s Development Research Group, where he oversees the Bank’s research programs on poverty, inequality and agriculture, presented the 2016 LIS Summer Lecture:
Measuring Global Poverty: Past, Present and Future.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/lecture-series/francisco-ferreira/
One new dataset from Finland, FI13, (WaveIX), has been added to the LIS Database. The dataset is from the 2014 wave of the Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC), which is carried out by Statistics Finland. In addition to releasing the Wave IX dataset, 5 earlier Finnish datasets (FI10/07/04/00/95) have been revised for consistency. […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/finland-2013-added-to-the-lis-database/
Five datasets from the United States, US95, US98, US01, US04 and US07, have been added to the LWS Database. The datasets are from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), carried out by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Please note that these datasets were included in the LWS pilot database but have […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/new-us-datasets-added-to-the-lws-database/
We are pleased to announce that the LIS Center has been selected to host the 2017 Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ). The meeting will be held at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, on 17-19 July, 2017. The call-for-papers will be issued by the ECINEQ […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/uncategorized/lis-hosts-ecineq-2017/