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American Sociological Association Session Features Presentation About LIS
Sep 04, 2013 | News

LIS Director Janet Gornick gave a presentation at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting in August. Her presentation highlighted LIS’ harmonisation process, access to the LIS databases, and examples of research using LIS and LWS data. The session, organized by Patricia White of the US National Science Foundation (NSF), presented four prominent data sources that […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/news/american-sociological-association-session-features-presentation-about-lis/

Read Tony Atkinson’s Foreword to Our New Book
Jul 15, 2013 | News

Sir Tony Atkinson, President of the LIS Board, is a professor of economics at Oxford University and one of the world’s leading scholars on economic inequality. We are delighted that he was able to contribute to our new book, “Income Inequality: Economic Disparities and the Middle Class in Affluent Countries.” In addition to contributing a […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/read-tony-atkinsons-foreword-to-our-new-book/

2013 LIS Summer Workshop Completed
Jul 09, 2013 | News

This past Saturday marked the end of the 2013 LIS Summer Workshop. The workshop, which has been held annually since 1988, features a mix of lectures and hands-on laboratory sessions. This year, lectures were given by LIS Director Janet Gornick, Research Director Markus Jäntti, and members of the LIS staff. The week-long workshop introduced attendees to […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/2013-lis-summer-workshop-completed/

Holly Sutherland
Jul 09, 2013 | Lecture Series

Research Professor at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, and Director of EUROMOD, presented the 2013 LIS Summer Lecture:
Who Pays for Austerity? The Design and Distributional Effects of Fiscal Consolidation in the European Union.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/lecture-series/holly-sutherland/