MSDECO: Stata module to calculate the Mookherjee & Shorrocks (1982) over-time inequality decomposition by subgroup

Andrew Silva ()
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Andrew Silva: Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: msdeco calculates the Mookherjee & Shorrocks over-time decomposition (Ec.J., 1982) for the specified varname with respect to groups in groupvar, from startyear to endyear. The decomposition is based on the GE(0) (Generalized Entropy of class 0) inequality measure, also known as the mean logarithmic deviation. As such, values of the primary input variable are restricted to positive numbers. msdeco depends upon ineqdeco, an excellent user-written routine by Jenkins (2015), which computes a panel of inequality indices and associated statistics that provide the building blocks of the Mookherjee & Shorrocks decomposition.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 8.2 and ineqdeco from SSC (q.v.)
Keywords: inequality; decomposition; generalized entropy; Mookherjee; Shorrocks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-07-16
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install msdeco". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
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