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Religious Minorities and Provision of Public Goods: Evidence from Rural West Bengal [PDF]

Religious and ethnic minorities across the world face partisan treatment with regard to provision of public goods, either as outcome of discriminatory practices or due to historical antecedents, such as the caste and religious divides in India.
Kar, Saibal, Kayal, Madhumanti, Kumar Das, Pranab   +2 more
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Distributional Changes in the Gender Wage Gap [PDF]

This paper analyzes changes in wage differentials between white men and white women over the period 1993–2006 across the entire wage distribution using Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) data. We decompose distributional changes in the gender wage gap
Mathias Sinning, Sonja C. Kassenböhmer
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Decomposition and comparative analysis of differences in anxiety between urban and rural Chinese adults: a national cross-sectional study

BMC Public Health
Background Anxiety is a severe global health problem. The long-established urban-rural dichotomy in China has led to unequal development in rural and urban areas, which may result in significant differences in the anxiety of rural and urban China ...
Xuange Sun, Yibo Wu, Juanxia Miao, Xue Wang, Yi Ma, Shuang Zang   +5 more
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Decomposing Wage Distributions Using Recentered Influence Function Regressions

Econometrics, 2018
This paper provides a detailed exposition of an extension of the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition method that can be applied to various distributional measures.
Sergio P. Firpo, Nicole M. Fortin, Thomas Lemieux   +2 more
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BRAZILIAN FEMALE LABOR MARKET: RACIAL-SKIN COLOR DISCRIMINATION AND INEFFICIENCY

Economia Aplicada, 2015
The myth of racial democracy is still widespread in the Brazilian society, although economic literature has continuously documented pervasive racial discrimination.
GUSTAVO ANDREY DE ALMEIDA LOPES FERNANDES
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Examining the Gender Wealth Gap in Germany [PDF]

Welfare-oriented analyses of economic outcome measures such as income and wealth generally rest on the assumption of pooled and equally shared resources among all household members. Yet the lack of individual-level data hampers the distribution of income
Frick, Joachim R., Grabka, Markus M., Sierminska, Eva   +2 more
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Explaining the increased health care expenditures associated with gastroesophageal reflux disease among elderly Medicare beneficiaries with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a cost-decomposition analysis

International Journal of COPD, 2014
Mayank Ajmera,1 Amit D Raval,1 Chan Shen,2 Usha Sambamoorthi1 1Department of Pharmaceutical Systems and Policy, School of Pharmacy, School of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA; 2Department of Biostatistics and Health Services ...
Ajmera M, Raval AD, Shen C, Sambamoorthi U   +3 more
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Oaxaca/Blinder decompositions for nonlinear models [PDF]

This paper describes the estimation of a general Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition of the mean outcome differential of linear and nonlinear regression models.
Markus Hahn, Matthias Sinning
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Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition for Tobit Models [PDF]

In this paper, a decomposition method for Tobit-models is derived, which allows the differences in a censored outcome variable between two groups to be decomposed into a part that is explained by differences in observed characteristics and a part ...
Mathias Sinning, Thomas Bauer
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Standard Errors for the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition [PDF]

, 2005
The decomposition technique introduced by Blinder (1973) and Oaxaca (1973) is widely used to study outcome differences between groups. For example, the technique is commonly applied to the analysis of the gender wage gap. However, despite the procedure's frequent use, very little attention has been paid to the issue of estimating the sampling variances
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