Cross-National Income and Wealth Microdata Available via LIS: Introduction to the Data and Illustrative Research

Session Submission Type: Workshop

Description

LIS, a well-known data archive, founded in 1983, provides researchers with access to high-quality socio-economic microdata from more than 60 countries, covering multiple decades. The LIS data have been widely used by sociologists, who have produced a large body of published research on levels and trends in poverty and inequality, spanning analyses of earnings, employment patterns, income, and/or wealth.

I have been engaged in creating and using these data for 35+ years, including serving as Director of LIS for 10 years. I have years of experience teaching researchers how to access and best utilize the data. I have presented workshops, like the one I propose here, at several annual sociology meetings in the past – including meetings of ASA, PAA, ISA, and the Eastern Sociological Society.

I propose, as in the past, to spend 50% of the allocated time introducing the data and, for the remainder, moderating as graduate students and other emerging scholars from my and other universities present brief summaries of their own research, usually in 5-7 minutes each. These presentations are selected and designed to illustrate a broad range of topics and diverse methodological approaches.

I am aware that ASA requests that all presenters be identified now. I hope that I could be permitted to add those names later. There are more than 20 graduate students at the CUNY Graduate Center, where I am based, using the LIS data, including five students whose PhD dissertations I am supervising, and 12 more in a class I am now teaching. I request permission to select the specific workshop presenters later.

Please see attached an EXAMPLE agenda from an earlier version of this workshop.

Sub Unit

• Workshops / Policy and Research Workshop

Presenter

• Janet Gornick, CUNY-Graduate Center

Session Organizer

• Janet Gornick, CUNY-Graduate Center