Join us for the launch of the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Satellite Office. The event will introduce the new Office, how to access the data from LSE premises, and presents overviews what analysis can be done with LIS, LWS, and more. 

LIS is a cross-national data center located in Luxembourg which serves as a global community of researchers, educators, and policy makers. LIS acquire datasets with income, wealth, employment and demographic data from many high- and middle-income countries, harmonies them to enable cross-national comparisons, and makes them publicly available in two databases, the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) and the Luxembourg Wealth Study Database (LWS).

This new cooperation between the III and LIS will enable LSE researchers to access data provided by LIS directly through pilot set-up of a LIS Virtual Desktop

Speakers:

Nora Waitkus (@nora_wait) is a sociologist interested in socio-economic stratification in contemporary capitalist societies. In her research she focuses on exploring and explaining cross-national variation and the institutional drivers of wealth inequality and concentration. Her work further deals with class, elites, and wealth accumulation using quantitative approaches and longitudinal data.

Branko Milanović (@BrankoMilan) is an economist specialising in income inequality and author of Global Inequality: a new approach for the age of globalization. He is visiting presidential professor at the Graduate Center, City University of New York and Centennial Professor at LSE’s International Inequalities Institute. 

Frank Cowell is Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His work includes important contributions to the fields of income and wealth distribution, inequality, poverty and taxation.

Peter Lanjouw is professor of Development Economics at VU University. Prior to joining the VU Economics department in January 2015 he had spent more than two decades in the Development Economics Research Group of the World Bank, most recently as Manager of the Poverty and Inequality team  He received his PhD from LSE.

Discussant:

Janet Gornick (@JanetGornick) is Professor of Political Science & Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center, and Director of Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, home to the US Office of LIS.

Chair:

Francisco Ferreira (@fhgferreira) is the Amartya Sen Professor of Inequality Studies and Director of the International Inequalities Institute at LSE.

More about this event

The International Inequalities Institute (@LSEInequalities) at LSE brings together experts from many of the School's departments and centres to lead cutting-edge research focused on understanding why inequalities are escalating in numerous arenas across the world, and to develop critical tools to address these challenges.

The Twitter hashtag for the event is #LSEInequalities.