LIS is a data archive & research center facilitating cross-national analyses. LIS is home to the Luxembourg Income Study & Luxembourg Wealth Study Databases.

Esch-Belval, Luxembourg
Joined April 2013
🚨 Major release alert We’re thrilled to launch lissyrtools v0.2.0 — our R package that makes working with LIS & LWS microdata simpler, faster, and clearer 📦 🧵 1/12
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📢 Applications Open: 2025 LIS Summer Workshop! Join us 30 June – 4 July 2025 at the University of Luxembourg for an intensive one-week course on Comparative Inequality Measurement using the LIS & LWS Databases. Workshop organised together with @uni_lu @LISERinLUX.
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Prof. Fabian Pfeffer (LMU Munich) giving the second Keynote Lecture of the 2nd III/LIS Comporative Economic Inequality Conference. Great insights in wealth and redistribution! @LMU_Muenchen
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Special Event: ‘Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War’ Branko Milanovic presents highlights from his most recent book followed by a discussion with Francisco Ferreira and Janet Gornick. – at Luxembourg
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Prof. Nora Lustig (Tulane University) giving the first Keynote Lecture at the 2nd III/LIS conference. Great insights in different methodologies to account for the missing rich in survey data around the world! #topincomes #inequality @noralustig @Tulane @LSEInequalities – at Luxembourg
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2nd III/LIS Comporative Economic Inequality Conference started. We are looking forward to 2 days packed with plenty of new research findings presented here in Luxembourg! Welcome Francisco Ferreira and Peter Lanjouw! @LSEInequalities #inequality
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Latest income inequality estimates from the LIS Database. Find more indicators here: ▶️Inequality and Poverty Key Figures lisdatacenter.org/lis-ikf-we… ▶️DART dart.lisdatacenter.org/ ▶️Our World in Data (OWID) inequality explorers lisdatacenter.org/data-acces…
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👇Since December 2024 the LIS & LWS databases contain more than 1000 datasets. This enables research on more than 30 Mio. households and 90 Mio individuals. Explore our databases here: lisdatacenter.org/our-data/ #LISdata #inequality #poverty #research
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LIS / STATEC are looking for a Microdata Expert (maternity replacement/parental leave) lisdatacenter.org/news-and-e…
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⏰Registration deadline approaching ! --2 December 2024-- 📣 5th (LIS)2ER workshop - "Fighting #poverty: measurement and policy challenges" organised by @lisdata and @LISER_LC lisdatacenter.org/news-and-e…
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Eighteenth Winter School on Inequality and Collective Welfare Theory (IT18) Inequality and Big Challenges January 6-11, 2025, Alba di Canazei (Dolomites) linux2.dse.univr.it/it/index… #inequality #winterschool
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