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LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg

@lisdata.bsky.social

LIS is a research center facilitating cross-national microdata analyses. LIS is home to the ex-post harmonised Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) & Luxembourg Wealth Study (LWS) Databases. https://www.lisdatacenter.org/

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LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg

"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:
▢️ Mexico debuts in LWS with MX19
▢️ Spain: ES22
▢️ France: data revised and enriched

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Updates to the LIS Database:
▢️ Bulgaria joins LIS (BG07–BG22)
▢️ Iceland: data annualised (IS03–IS17)
▢️ Palestine: PS23
▢️ Poland: 3 new datasets (PL21–PL23)

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πŸ“’ New Data & Research Insights!
--#InequalityMatters, Issue 34, June 2025 is out!--
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3/ πŸ’° Income Distribution Explorer
Dive into median incomes across countries and over time.
πŸ”— ourworldindata.org/explorers/in...

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2/ πŸ“Š Inequality Explorer
Compare Gini coefficients across countriesβ€”how income is distributed after taxes. t.co/8P6ER2kQuk

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3/ πŸ’° Income Distribution Explorer
Dive into median incomes across countries and over time.
πŸ”— ourworldindata.org/explorers/in...

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1/ πŸ“‰ Poverty Explorer
See how many people live below $30/day (after tax, adjusted for household size).
πŸ”— ourworldindata.org/explorers/po...

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Announcing new features: better interactive maps Learn what’s new and try it out yourself.

🚨 New map features on @ourworldindata.org ! 🌍
OWID just rolled out upgrades to their data explorersβ€”more intuitive, and easier to compare the LIS data.
ourworldindata.org/new-features...

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Tools for LISSY Jobs A package with the tools needed to develop scripts with LIS data. It allows users to: 1) Read LIS data within the LISSY environment, or to use LIS sample files locally; 2) Carry out commonly performed...

πŸ”— Try it now
πŸ“¦ lis-cross-national-data-center.github.io/lissyrtools/
πŸ’¬ Feedback, issues, and ideas are welcome!
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πŸš€ 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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πŸ–₯️ Prototype locally
Test code on built-in sample data, then run it on LISSY when you're ready.
πŸ”— www.lisdatacenter.org/data-access/...
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πŸ” Metadata at your fingertips
Instantly check dataset or variable availability, labels, notes, and category definitions β€” without leaving R.
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πŸ“ˆ Ready for plotting
Transform results into tidy data.frames for compatible ggplot2 use.
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πŸ“‹ Readable outputs
Compact, country-wise formats make outputs easy to scan, compare, and interpret.
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πŸ“Š Quick insights
Summarize distributions, magnitudes, and subgroup breakdowns β€” within countries over time, and across countries in one go.
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πŸͺ„ Effortless weighting
All aggregation functions incorporate survey weights seamlesslyβ€”stay accurate and representative.
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πŸ”§ Flexible transformations
Easily handle currency conversion, equivalization, and outlier detection β€” all with built-in functions.
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🌍 Global harmonized data access
Load over 1,000 datasets from 50+ country series β€” in a single step.
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πŸ’‘ 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.
πŸ‘‰ Try it: lis-cross-national-data-center.github.io/lissyrtools/
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🚨 Major release alert
We’re thrilled to launch lissyrtools v0.2.0 β€” our R package that makes working with LIS & LWS microdata simpler, faster, and clearer πŸ“¦
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LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg

LIS is happy to invite you to its 2025 Summer Lecture on β€œSocial contagion, inequality and mobility” 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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πŸ“£ 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)

πŸ“… 15-17 September 2025
πŸ“ Villa Mondragone, Rome, Italy

Apply by 31 May 2025
Link: shorturl.at/unDqU

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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

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β€‹πŸ“’ 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:
www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-eve...
#Inequality #SummerWorkshop

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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!

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πŸ“’ Applications Open! The 33rd LIS Introductory Workshop is set for 30 June – 4 July 2025 at the University of Luxembourg, Belval Campus.
Learn more & apply now until April 11,2025: www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-eve...
#LISdata #LWSdata #EconomicInequality #InequalityMatters

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