The Luxembourg Income Study

Martin Ravallion

No 332, Working Papers from ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

Abstract: The Luxembourg Income Study (now known as LIS) provides public access for research purposes to harmonized unit-record data sets for multiple countries, in addition to providing summary statistics from those data, including poverty and inequality measures. LIS is a well-managed and undeniably important global public institution for research on inequality and social policy in rich countries. However, LIS's eligibility criteria, country coverage, timeliness and some of its measurement practices limit its usefulness for many other purposes. The paper identifies a number of issues that would need to be addressed by a truly global micro-data base for studying poverty and inequality.

Keywords: Income; poverty; inequality; household surveys; data access. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C81 I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2014-05
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