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

9511521 Smeeding卢森堡收入研究数据库包括截至1994年12月关于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。这些数据被全球300多名研究人员用于分析经济和社会政策及其对收入结构、贫困和收入不平等、受教育程度和性别的工资和收入差异等主题的影响。两年期会议和夏季讲习班等定期活动与断断续续的会议和涉及数据库的会议相结合。在过去的七年里，LIS项目已经证明了它作为一个国际资助和研究人员领导的数据库项目的可行性和有效性。它的独特之处在于，它的大部分支持和所有“核心”业务都是由一个由18个国家组成的财团提供资金的。由于在设计和意图上，一旦签署了隐私承诺，电子访问LIS是免费的，因此许多用户将其视为一种“公共产品”，以很少或没有直接成本的方式为他们提供好处。这笔赠款为美国对联合国的核心贡献提供了新的资金。

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.