A computational trick for calculating the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition and its standard error

Peter Kennedy and Jutta Heinrichs ()
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Jutta Heinrichs: Associated Economic Consultants

Economics Bulletin, 2007, vol. 3, issue 66, 1-7

Abstract: To compute the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition and associated standard errors a practitioner needs to be comfortable using vector and matrix software manipulations. This paper proposes a computational trick for producing these computations by running an artificial regression.

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Date: 2007-12-05
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