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LIS Completes Block of BRIC Countries – and Adds South Africa
May 24, 2011 | News

LIS is proud to announce that, soon, the full block of BRIC countries will be included in the LIS Database. A dataset from Brazil was added in 2009. After a 5-year hiatus, we have regained access to data from Russia. Harmonization on a dataset from India is now underway. LIS staff will begin harmonizing a […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/news/china-india-and-south-africa-join-lis/

Japanese Microdata Added to LWS Database
Feb 09, 2011 | News

This is the first time that LIS has been able to provide access to Japanese microdata on income, wealth, demographics and labour market outcomes for comparative research. The microdata, from the first round of the KHPS conducted in 2004, report incomes received and wealth held in 2003. We are especially grateful to the Panel Data […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/news/lis-is-pleased-to-announce-the-addition-of-japanese-microdata-from-the-keio-household-panel-survey-khps-to-the-luxembourg-wealth-study/

Paul Krugman
Jul 30, 2010 | Lecture Series

Nobel Prize in Economics in 2008 and Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs at Princeton University presented the 2010 LIS Summer lecture:
“Inequality and Crises: Coincidence or Causality?
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/lecture-series/paul-krugman/

Lawrence Mishel
Jul 30, 2009 | Lecture Series

President of the Economic Policy Institute (EPI – Washington D.C.), Lawrence Mishel presented the 2009 LIS Summer Lecture:
Waging Inequality in America
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/lecture-series/lawrence-mishel/