Extending the Kitagawa–Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition approach to panel data

Hannes Kröger () and Jörg Hartmann ()
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Hannes Kröger: German Institute for Economic Research (DIW)
Jörg Hartmann: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Stata Journal, 2021, vol. 21, issue 2, 360-410

Abstract: The Kitagawa–Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition approach has been widely used to attribute group-level differences in an outcome to differences in en- dowment, coefficients, and their interactions. The method has been implemented for Stata in the popular oaxaca command for cross-sectional analyses. In recent decades, however, research questions have been more often focused on the decom- position of group-based differences in change over time, for example, diverging income trajectories, as well as decomposition of change in differences between groups, for example, change in the gender pay gap over time. We review five exist- ing methods for the decomposition of changes in group means and contribute an extension that takes an interventionist perspective suitable for applications with a clear before–after comparison. These decompositions of levels and changes over time can be implemented using the xtoaxaca command, which works as a postestimation command for different regression commands in Stata. It is built to maximize flexibility in modeling and implements all decomposition techniques presented in this article.

Keywords: xtoaxaca; decomposition; longitudinal data; panel data; Oaxaca; Blinder; Kitagawa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1177/1536867X211025800

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