Special Issue Comparative wealth and income research edited by Daniele Checchi and Janet Gornick is now available online
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/jid-special-issue-from-the-2017-lislws-user-conference/
Archives
This database allows LIS users to retrieve very detailed and standardized occupation categories, following the international two-digit coding of the ISCO-88 standard
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/new-complementary-database-routine-task-intensity-and-offshorability-for-the-lis/
The workshop explored methods aimed at adjusting the top of income and wealth distributions
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/workshop-on-harmonization-of-household-surveys-fiscal-data-and-national-accounts-at-the-paris-school-of-economics/
Research collaboration signed between AFD and LIS
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/research-agreement-with-the-agence-francaise-de-developpement-afd/
In our quest to establish closer collaboration with regional and international organizations, LIS has signed a MOU with ERF
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/lis-signed-a-memorandum-of-understanding-with-the-economic-research-forum-erf/
The Oxford’s Nuffield College and the London School of Economics honored the outstanding work and life of former LIS President Sir Tony Atkinson
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/what-can-be-done/
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/
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/
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/
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/