Project Grant 2307748

This $1,427,087 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides continuing support for U.S. participation in the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) and Luxembourg Wealth Study (LWS) databases. These cross-national data infrastructure initiatives maintain harmonized datasets on household income, wealth, employment, and demographics from over 80 countries, enabling and fostering comparative research on socio-economic outcomes globally. The award funds the ongoing acquisition, harmonization, and documentation of new survey datasets, as well as pilot studies to explore expanding the data offerings to include consumption data. It also supports training, user support, and communication activities to promote the use of these microdata resources by thousands of researchers worldwide, more than one-fifth of whom are based in the United States. The grant is awarded to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York, which has served as the primary U.S. partner for the LIS and LWS databases since the 1980s.