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> Sent: 26 November 2003 09:24
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> Subject: st: Decomposition of effects: logit/probit models
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>
> Hi,
>
> The commands -decomp- and -decompose- perform the the
> Oaxaca/Blinder decompositions regarding especially gender or
> race differences in earnings or wages.
>
> I would like to perform an analysis applying the
> Oaxaca/Blinder decomposition-logic in the case where the
> dependent variable is binary, say, work fulltime (1) or not (0).
>
> A paper by Picot and Myles* describes generically how to
> perform such an analysis. My question is: Has anyone written
> a do-file (or an ado-file) to carry out such a task?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Christer Thrane
> Lillehammer University College
>
> *Picot, G., & Myles, J. (1996) Social Transfers, Changing
> Family Structure and Low Income among Children. Canadian
> Public Policy, 22, 244-267.
I don't have do files, but it should be relatively easy to program (the
greater complications are providing standard errors for the components).
By the way, a better reference for the method is
Gomulka J and Stern N (1990) 'The employment of married women in the
United Kingdom 1970-83",
Economica 57, 171-199.
They were the orginators of the decomposition, and the Appendix to their
paper sketches out the econometric theory justifying it (and gives
variance formulae).
Stephen
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