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Beyond Oaxaca-Blinder: Accounting for Differences in Household Income Distributions Across Countries [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2002
This paper develops a micro-econometric method to account for differences across distributions of household income. Going beyond the determination of earnings in labor markets, we also estimate statistical models for occupational choice and for the conditional distributions of education, fertility and non-labor incomes.
Bourguignon, François, Ferreira, Francisco H. G., Leite, Phillippe G.   +2 more
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Average Wage Gaps and Oaxaca-Blinder Decompositions [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
In this paper I develop a new version of the Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition whose unexplained component recovers a parameter which I refer to as the average wage gap. Under a particular conditional independence assumption, this estimand is equivalent to the average treatment effect (ATE). I also provide treatment-effects reinterpretations of the Reimers,
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Economic Inequality in Presenting Vision in Shahroud, Iran: Two Decomposition Methods [PDF]

International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2018
Background Visual acuity, like many other health-related problems, does not have an equal distribution in terms of socio-economic factors. We conducted this study to estimate and decompose economic inequality in presenting visual acuity using two ...
Asieh Mansouri, Mohammad Hassan Emamian, Hojjat Zeraati, Hasan Hashemi, Akbar Fotouhi   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

How Does the Renewal of Urban Villages Affect the Resettled Villagers’ Subjective Well-Being? A Case Study in Wuhan, China

Land, 2023
To achieve sustainable development, the improvement of villagers’ subjective well-being has become the main policy goal of urban village renewal. However, the mechanism of how urban village renewal affects subjective well-being remains untested in ...
Qing Yang, Chaozheng Zhang
doaj   +1 more source

Early childhood circumstances and educational wellbeing inequality among tribal and non-tribal children in India: evidence from a panel study

Scientific Reports, 2022
Despite efforts towards bridging the education gap between tribal (Scheduled Tribe) and non-tribal (Non-Scheduled Tribe) children, contrasting poor-quality education questioned the tribal children’s educational wellbeing in India.
Rashmi Rashmi, Ronak Paul
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Beyond Oaxaca–Blinder: Accounting for differences in household income distributions

The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2007
This paper develops a method to decompose differences across distributions of household income, based on counterfactual distributions that 'lie between' the actually observed distributions. Our approach decomposes differences between any two income distributions (or functionals such as inequality or poverty measures) into shares due to price effects ...
Bourguignon, François, Ferreira Francisco H. G.,, Leite, Philippe G.   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

What explains gender inequality in HIV infection among high-risk people? A Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition

Archives of Public Health, 2022
Background Despite clear evidence on role of gender in vulnerability and exposure to HIV infection, information on gender-related inequalities in HIV and related factors are rarely documented. The aim of this study was to measure gender inequality in HIV
Mansour Sajadipour, Satar Rezaei, Seyed Fahim Irandoost, Mohammadreza Ghaumzadeh, Mohamadreza Salmani nadushan, Mohammad Gholami, Yahya Salimi, Zahra Jorjoran Shushtari   +7 more
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Semiparametrically efficient estimation of the average linear regression function

, 2018
Let Y be an outcome of interest, X a vector of treatment measures, and W a vector of pre-treatment control variables. Here X may include (combinations of) continuous, discrete, and/or non-mutually exclusive "treatments". Consider the linear regression of
Graham, Bryan S., Pinto, Cristine Campos de Xavier   +1 more
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Publicly funded private schools and academic achievement: A comparative analysis of PISA data in European countries

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper analyses differences in academic achievement associated with attendance at publicly funded private schools and public schools across 11 European countries. Using eight waves of PISA data (2000–2022), we apply OLS, IPW and IPWRA estimators to account for observed heterogeneity and mitigate selection bias.
Priya Maurya, Léonard Moulin, Denis Fougère   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gender Differences in Risk Preferences: Implications for Adoption of Climate Smart Agricultural Technologies

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The gender gap in risk preferences in rural farm households, with female farmers commonly viewed as more risk‐averse than their male counterparts, may have profound implications for addressing the gendered impacts of climate change. Understanding these gender differences and their drivers is essential for designing policies that enhance ...
Abebe Hailemariam, Jaslin Kalsi, Astghik Mavisakalyan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source