Many thanks Professor Jenkins for your helpful and
quick response.
--- "Stephen P. Jenkins" <[email protected]> wrote:
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 15:13:39 +0100 (BST)
> From: sara hussain <[email protected]>
> Subject: st: Inequality: dynamic decomposition
>
> Dear Stata users,
>
> I would like to undertake a dynamic decomposition of
> inequality (i.e. pure inequality and compositional
> effects) given by Mookhrerjee and Shorrocks (1982)
> and
> applied by Jenkins (1995). I have looked at ineqdeco
> and I don't think that this routime can be used. Any
> suggestion would be most apprecaited.
>
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>
> -ineqdeco- reports all the components that are used
> in the
> decompositions by population subgroup of inequality
> change proposed by
> Mookherjee and Shorrocks (Economic Journal 1982) and
> applied by Jenkins
> (Economica 1995). You run the program once for year
> A and again for
> year B. The articles focussed on the mean log
> deviation inequality index
> (generalised entropy index with parameter alpha = 0)
>
> What -ineqdeco- does not currently do is save all of
> the estimated
> components as saved results in r(). (When I revise
> the program in
> future, I shall be addressing this issue.) So, for
> the decompositions
> of inequality change, you have to retrieve the
> estimates by hand from a
> log file
>
>
> Stephen (author of -ineqdeco- and -ineqdec0- )
>
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> Professor Stephen P. Jenkins <[email protected]>
> Institute for Social and Economic Research
> University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, U.K.
> Tel: +44 1206 873374. Fax: +44 1206 873151.
> http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk
> Survival Analysis using Stata:
>
http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/teaching/degree/stephenj/ec968/
>
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