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An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Technique to Logit and Probit Models [PDF]

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The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique is widely used to identify and quantify the separate contributions of group differences in measurable characteristics, such as education, experience, marital status, and geographical differences to racial and ...
Robert W. Fairlie
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Standard Errors for the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition [PDF]

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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
Ben Jann
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Spatial and Inter-temporal Sources of Poverty, Inequality and Gender Disparities in Cameroon: a Regression-Based Decomposition Analysis [PDF]

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This study applies the regression-based inequality decomposition technique to explain poverty and inequality trends in Cameroon. We also identify gender related factors which explain income disparities and discrimination based on the 2001 and 2007 ...
Nadine Teme Angele Manga   +2 more
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Gender, Education and Poverty in DR Congo: A Microeconomic Analysis Based on the Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition

open access: yes, 2019
This paper analyzes gender, education and poverty in DRC through a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition approach. The latter was needed in this study to judge the difference in level of consumption expenditure per adult equivalent per day depending on whether ...
Dieu-Merci Akonkwa Nyamuhirwa
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Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition analysis for the racial disparity in influenza vaccination between Black and White* KPMAS patients.

open access: yes, 2019
Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition analysis for the racial disparity in influenza vaccination between Black and White* KPMAS patients.
Michael A. Horberg (486298)   +4 more
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Using the Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition Technique to Analyze Learning Outcomes Changes Over Time: An Application to Indonesia's Results in PISA Mathematics

open access: yes, 2011
The Oaxaca-Blinder technique was originally used in labor economics to decompose earnings gaps and to estimate the level of discrimination. It has been applied since in other social issues, including education, where it can be used to assess how much of ...
Felipe Barrera-Osorio   +3 more
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Gender Differences in Smoking Behavior [PDF]

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This paper investigates gender differences in smoking behavior using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP). We develop a Blinder- Oaxaca decomposition method for count data models which allows to isolate the part of the gender differential in ...
Thomas Bauer   +2 more
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Decomposition of Changes in Earnings Inequality in China: A Distributional Approach [PDF]

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Using the nationwide household data, this study examines the changes in the Chinese urban income distributions from 1987 to 1996 and from 1996 to 2004, and investigates the causes of these changes.
Li, Bo, Yu, Qiumei, Chi, Wei
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Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition for Tobit models [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
In this article, a decomposition method for Tobit models is derived, which allows the differences in observed outcome variables between two groups to be decomposed into a part that is explained by differences in observed characteristics and a part ...
Thomas Bauer   +4 more
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New Century, Old Disparities: Gender and Ethnic Wage Gaps in Latin America [PDF]

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This paper surveys gender and ethnic wage gaps in 18 Latin American countries, decomposing differences using matching comparisons as a non-parametric alternative to the Blinder-Oaxaca (BO) decomposition.
Winder, Natalia   +2 more
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