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Re: st: Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition - Interpretation of output
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Muhammad Anees <[email protected]>
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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 <[email protected]> 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
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COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
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