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| From | Muhammad Anees <anees@aneconomist.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition - Interpretation of output |
| Date | Tue, 4 Dec 2012 16:36:13 +0500 |
Do you have the following working paper? Ben Jann, 2008, A Stata implementation of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition, ETH Zurich Sociology Working Paper No. 5 Hope this helps you. Anees On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Bettina Lamla <Lamla@mea.mpisoc.mpg.de> wrote: > Dear all, > > I perform a decomposition analysis using the Oaxaca command from Ben Jann. I have Stata 12.1. > > In every specification I find the group difference to be statistically significant, however neither endowments, coefficients not the interaction between these two seem to explain the difference (not significant). I struggle with the interpretation. Can anyone help? > > Thanks! > > Here is a part of the output: > > Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition > Number of obs = 1076 > Model = linear > Group 1: east = 0 N of obs 1 = 690 > Group 2: east = 1 N of obs 2 = 386 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > flit3 | Coef. Std. Err. z P>|z| [95% Conf. Interval] > ------------- +---------------------------------------------------------------- > overall | > group_1 | .5391304 .0192225 28.05 0.000 .5014551 .5768057 > group_2 | .4378238 .0258589 16.93 0.000 .3871413 .4885063 > difference | .1013066 .0322209 3.14 0.002 .0381548 .1644584 > endowments | .019734 .0314114 0.63 0.530 -.0418313 .0812993 > coefficients | .0345781 .0352739 0.98 0.327 -.0345575 .1037137 > interaction | .0469945 .0349906 1.34 0.179 -.0215857 .1155748 > > > > > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ -- Best --------------------------- Muhammad Anees Assistant Professor/Programme Coordinator COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Attock 43600, Pakistan http://www.aneconomist.com * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/