U.S. Participation in the Development of a Transnational Database on Family Income

9511521卢森堡收入研究数据库包括关于截至1994年12月23个工业化经济体的家庭组成及其现金收入结构的可比微观数据。LIS将这些数据标准化，并通过电子邮件提供。这些数据被全世界300多名研究人员用来分析经济和社会政策及其对收入结构、贫困和收入不平等以及按教育水平和性别划分的工资和收入差距等主题的影响。定期活动，如两年期会议和夏季讲习班，与间歇性会议和涉及数据库的会议相结合。在过去的七年里，LIS项目证明了它作为一个国际赞助和研究人员主导的数据库项目的可行性和实用性。它的独特之处在于，它的大部分支持以及它的所有“核心”业务都是由一个由18个国家组成的财团提供资金的。由于电子访问LIS的设计和意图是，一旦签署隐私承诺，电子访问LIS就是免费的，许多用户将其视为一种“公共产品”，几乎没有直接成本给他们提供好处。这笔赠款为美国对LIS的核心捐款提供了新的资金。

9511521 Smeeding The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) database consists of comparable microdata on the composition of households and the structure of their cash incomes for 23 industrialized economies as of December 1994. LIS standardizes these data and makes them available through electronic mail. These data are used by over 300 researchers worldwide to analyze economic and social policy and its effect on such topics as income structure, poverty and income inequality, and wage and earnings differentials by education level and by gender. Regular activities such as biennial meetings and summer workshops, are combined with intermittent conferences and meetings involving the database. Over the past seven years, the LIS project has demonstrated its feasibility and usefulness as an internationally sponsored and researcher-lead database project. It is unique in its approach to funding in that the majority of its support, and all of its "core' operations, are funded by a consortium of 18 nations. Because electronic access to LIS is, by design and intent, free once a privacy pledge is signed, many users treat it as a "public good" which provides benefits at little or no direct cost to them. This grant provides renewed funding for the United States core contribution to LIS.