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"False Negatives? Earnings Underreporting, Tax Overreporting in Surveys Worldwide"
by Vladimir Hlasny
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"Comparing Child Poverty Using the Luxembourg Income Study and Policy Recommendations"
by Jonathan Bradshaw, Gianluca Munalli, and Dominic Richardson
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"Occupational Assortative Mating and Gender Inequality in Earnings"
by Supriya Lakhtakia, Deepak Malghan, and Hema Swaminathan
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Updates to the LWS Database:
βΆοΈ Mexico debuts in LWS with MX19
βΆοΈ Spain: ES22
βΆοΈ France: data revised and enriched
Updates to the LIS Database:
βΆοΈ Bulgaria joins LIS (BG07βBG22)
βΆοΈ Iceland: data annualised (IS03βIS17)
βΆοΈ Palestine: PS23
βΆοΈ Poland: 3 new datasets (PL21βPL23)
π’ New Data & Research Insights!
--#InequalityMatters, Issue 34, June 2025 is out!--
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3/ π° Income Distribution Explorer
Dive into median incomes across countries and over time.
π ourworldindata.org/explorers/in...
2/ π Inequality Explorer
Compare Gini coefficients across countriesβhow income is distributed after taxes. t.co/8P6ER2kQuk
3/ π° Income Distribution Explorer
Dive into median incomes across countries and over time.
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1/ π Poverty Explorer
See how many people live below $30/day (after tax, adjusted for household size).
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π¨ New map features on @ourworldindata.org ! π
OWID just rolled out upgrades to their data explorersβmore intuitive, and easier to compare the LIS data.
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π Try it now
π¦ lis-cross-national-data-center.github.io/lissyrtools/
π¬ Feedback, issues, and ideas are welcome!
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π Why use lissyrtools?
LIS/LWS data are powerful β but handling it can be complex.
lissyrtools helps researchers, students, and policymakers focus on insights, not infrastructure.
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π₯οΈ Prototype locally
Test code on built-in sample data, then run it on LISSY when you're ready.
π www.lisdatacenter.org/data-access/...
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π Metadata at your fingertips
Instantly check dataset or variable availability, labels, notes, and category definitions β without leaving R.
9/12
π Ready for plotting
Transform results into tidy data.frames for compatible ggplot2 use.
8/12
π Readable outputs
Compact, country-wise formats make outputs easy to scan, compare, and interpret.
7/12
π Quick insights
Summarize distributions, magnitudes, and subgroup breakdowns β within countries over time, and across countries in one go.
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πͺ Effortless weighting
All aggregation functions incorporate survey weights seamlesslyβstay accurate and representative.
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π§ Flexible transformations
Easily handle currency conversion, equivalization, and outlier detection β all with built-in functions.
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π Global harmonized data access
Load over 1,000 datasets from 50+ country series β in a single step.
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π‘ What is lissyrtools?
It helps you clean, compare, and visualize harmonized LIS/LWS microdata β across countries and over time β with just a few lines of R.
π Try it: lis-cross-national-data-center.github.io/lissyrtools/
2/12
π¨ Major release alert
Weβre thrilled to launch lissyrtools v0.2.0 β our R package that makes working with LIS & LWS microdata simpler, faster, and clearer π¦
π§΅ 1/12
LIS is happy to invite you to its 2025 Summer Lecture on βSocial contagion, inequality and mobilityβ by Prof. Marc Fleurbaey, The Paris School of Economics
The lecture will take place on June 30, 2025 from 17:30 to 18:30, Maison des Sciences Humaines, Belval
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π£ Submit your paper to the 10th Conference in Development Economics organised by SITES.
Keynotes: Stefan Dercon (Oxford), Nathalie Picard (UniversitΓ© de Strasbourg) Kevin Urama (AFB)
π
15-17 September 2025
π Villa Mondragone, Rome, Italy
Apply by 31 May 2025
Link: shorturl.at/unDqU
Using @lisdata.bsky.social data, I plot wealth inequality against income inequality and the wealth-to-income ratio: how much wealth a country has, relative to the size of its economy. As expected, there's minimal relationship between the Gini index for marketable wealth and that for income
24.04.2025 18:41 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0βπ’ Reminder: The application deadline for the 2025 LIS Summer Workshop is 11 April 2025.
This course will take place from 30 June to 4 July 2025 at the University of Luxembourg, Belval Campus.
For more details and to apply:
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#Inequality #SummerWorkshop
Two weeks left to apply! This year's Inequality by the Numbers research workshop will be held in person at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social from June 9 to 13. Apply by March 31!
17.03.2025 13:55 β π 8 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0π’ Applications Open! The 33rd LIS Introductory Workshop is set for 30 June β 4 July 2025 at the University of Luxembourg, Belval Campus.
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#LISdata #LWSdata #EconomicInequality #InequalityMatters