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Determinants of household adoption of clean energy with its rural–urban disparities in Bangladesh

Scientific Reports
This study aims to investigate factors influencing the adoption of clean energy among households in Bangladesh, using Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition and extended probit regression model with data from the 2019 Bangladesh multiple indicator cluster survey ...
Iqramul Haq, Maruf Khan, Sharanon Chakma, Md. Ismail Hossain, Shuvongkar Sarkar, Md. Rayhan Ali Rejvi, Md. Salauddin, Md Mizanur Rahman Sarker   +7 more
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Public versus private wage differential in Brazilian public firms

EconomiA, 2020
This work explores that Brazilian public firms were allowed to hire workers either as statutory (''civil servants'') as well as under private market labor regime (''CLT'').
Andre Mancha, Enlinson Mattos
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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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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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An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition to Non-Linear Models [PDF]

In this paper, a general Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition is derived that can also be applied to non-linear models, which allows the differences in a non-linear outcome variable between two groups to be decomposed into a part that is explained by differences
Mathias Sinning, Thomas Bauer
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Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition for Tobit models [PDF]

, 2005
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 ...
Bauer, Thomas K., Sinning, Mathias
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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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A computational trick for calculating the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition and its standard error [PDF]

To compute the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition and associated standard errors a practitioner needs to be comfortable using vector and matrix software manipulations.
Jutta Heinrichs, Peter Kennedy
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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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