A Stata implementation of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition

By Ben Jann. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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The Dark Side of Chinese Growth: Declining Social Capital and Well-Being in Times of Economic Boom (2015, background): “The latter is generally considered a discrimination measure (Jann, 2008).”
Viewpoint: Measuring and Understanding Subjective Well-Being (2010, positive): “We do this using the Junn (2008) implementation of the decomposition method suggested much earlier by Blinder (1973) and Oaxaca (1973) for explaining wage differentials.”
Firm-Level Corruption in Vietnam (2012, methodology): “Around 69% of the firms in the cleaned sample are categorized as micro, 26% are small, and the remaining 5% are medium-sized firms. Some 28% of the firms are not registered at the district or provincial level, and we see a small increase (from 26% to 30%) in the number of informal firms between the ”
Entrepreneurial practices in research-intensive and teaching-led universities (2016, methodology): “…Blinder– Oaxaca model follows Fairlie (1999) who generalised the technique to the case of discrete choice models (including the probit model) and we use the latest version of the Stata command ‘‘oaxaca’’, which is extended to cover probit models, for estimating the models in Table 4 (Jann 2008).”
Earnings differentials between the public and private sectors in China: Exploring changes for urban local residents in the 2000s (2012, background): “However, this assumption leads to the well-known “index number problem,” resulting in various weighting schemes being put forward in the empirical literature (Neumark, 2008; Jann, 2008; Elder et al., 2010).”