Re: Re: st: oaxaca twofold decomposition

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

Some progress here.

First, you evidently have the latest public version of -oaxaca-.

Second, -oaxaca- is telling you that you do not have a variable
-male-. Is that true? Nothing in the commands you show us mentions a
variable -male-. The syntax of -oaxaca- is not that it feeds on
models; a glance at the help shows this. It takes a varlist.

In any case, I can't see that a variable called -male- is something
that you would want to feed to -oaxaca- as outcome variable.

Whether -oaxaca- offers you the kind of analysis you want in some
other way I leave to others. I've never used it.

Nick

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Chiara Mussida <cmussida@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Nick and All,
> the version is:
> *! version 4.0.5  24aug2011  Ben Jann
>  and located in a proper folder:
> C:\Program Files\Stata12\ado\base\o\oaxaca.ado
>
> Nevertheless, by typing:
> qui regress lwage $x if fem==0
>
>  estimates store male
>
>  qui regress lwage $x if fem==1
>
>  estimates store female
>
> oaxaca male female, wei(1)
>
>  I still get the error message: variable male not found. And the help
> file does not suggest me how to estimate a twofold oaxaca
> decomposition
>  as attempted above, by using the estimates of the models male and female

> On 28/05/2012, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It is very difficult to follow this. Your previous report was that
>> -oaxaca- was not up-to-date, which was evidently a problem; now the
>> report is that -oaxaca- is up-to-date, which evidently you still
>> regard as a problem.
>>
>> . ssc type oaxaca.ado
>>
>> shows that the latest version of -oaxaca- is
>>
>> *! version 4.0.5  24aug2011  Ben Jann
>>
>> so the question is: do you have precisely this version? -which oaxaca,
>> all- is one way to look at this; another is to get your operating
>> system to look for all copies of oaxaca.ado on your computer.
>>
>> It's possible that you are moving around from directory to directory
>> in your work, and have somehow accumulated different versions of
>> -oaxaca- that vary in their visibility, but nevertheless -ssc- should
>> be installing in sensible places.
>>
>> I don't think firewalls are an issue here. Ben Jann is so called;
>> "Soz" is an abbreviation for his discipline.
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Chiara Mussida <cmussida@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> By trying with these 2 suggestions:
>>>
>>> ssc install oaxaca
>>> checking oaxaca consistency and verifying not already installed...
>>> all files already exist and are up to date.
>>>
>>> . net install oaxaca
>>> checking oaxaca consistency and verifying not already installed...
>>> all files already exist and are up to date.
>>>
>>> I got the same answer, and therefor I cannot change the installed
>>> oaxaca. (Probably there is a firewall that prevent from this.) I heve
>>> just written to the author of my ado file, Jann Soz (download from
>>> http://ideas.repec.org/c/boc/bocode/s456936.html). Does somebody know
>>> a different link for an Oaxaca which satisly my estimation
>>> requirements (namely, Oaxaca twofold deco)?
>>>
>>
>>> On 26/05/2012, Christopher Baum <kit.baum@bc.edu> wrote:
>>>> <>
>>>> On May 26, 2012, at 8:33 AM, Fernando wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Two suggestions:
>>>>> try either -ssc install oaxaca, replace-
>>>>> Or go manually to the address of the do files which could be either
>>>>> here "C:\ado\plus\o" or here "C:\Program Files\Stata12\ado\base\o" and
>>>>> manually erase the oaxaca files, before trying to install them again.
>>>>> Fernando
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Chiara Mussida <cmussida@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> THanks,
>>>>>> the problem is that Stata does not allow me to reinstall the Oaxaca.
>>>>>> By
>>>>>> tipying:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ssc install oaxaca
>>>>>> checking oaxaca consistency and verifying not already installed...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> the following files already exist and are different:
>>>>>>   c:\ado\plus\o\oaxaca.ado
>>>>>>   c:\ado\plus\o\oaxaca.hlp
>>>>>>
>>>>>> no files installed or copied
>>>>>> (no action taken)
>>>>>> r(602);
>>>>>>
>>>>>> the errore message says that Stata cannot overwrite the existing file!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> or better yet
>>>>
>>>> adoupdate oaxaca, update
>>

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