st: New package in SSC - HOI: Stata module to compute Human Opportunity Index

[JP Azevedo <jp.statalist@gmail.com>]

Thanks to Kit Baum it is now available for download in SSC the packe -
HOI. In Stata, use the -ssc install command to install it in your
computer.

hoi computes the Human Opportunity Index proposed by Barros et al
(2008), including the Coverage of Basic Opportunities (C), the
Dissemilarity Index (D), and the Human Opportunity Index (HOI).
Analytical standard errors are reported for the C, D, and HOI. The
program also computes two decompositions of changes of the HOI: (i)
the scale and distribution decomposition proposed in Barros et al
(2008); and, (ii) the composition, equalization and scale
decomposition presented in Molinas et al, 2010 and Velez et al, 2010.

For further information please visit: http://www.worldbank.org/lacopportunity/

Further references:

    Carlos Eduardo Velez, Joao Pedro Azevedo, and Christian Posso.
Oportunidades para los niños colombianos:  cuánto avanzamos en esta
década. Banco Mundial, Bando de la Republica, Departamento Nacional de
Planeacion:  Bogota, Colombia.

    Jose Molinas Vega, Ricardo Paes de Barros, Jaime Saavedra
Chanduvi, et all, 2010. "Do Our Children Have a Chance? The 2010 Human
Opportunity Report for Latin America and the Caribbean - Conference
Edition", World Bank: Washington, DC.
http://www.worldbank.org/lacopportunity/

    Ricardo Paes de Barros, Francisco H.G. Ferreira, Jose Molinas
Vega, Jaime SaavedraChanduvi, et all, 2008. "Measuring Inequality of
Opportunities in Latin America and the    Caribbean", World Bank:
Washington, DC.  http://go.worldbank.org/A9Z0NUV620

Best wishes,

Joao Pedro

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