This paper studies the effects of factors such as economic growth, industrial structure and governance on differences in PM2.5 concentration among groups by using Oaxaca-Blinder (OB) decomposition Recentered Influence Function (RIF) regressions. Specifically, we first explore cities find that attributable to returns these contribute more total difference than composition caused means factors. M...

The percentage of non-Hispanic Whites without health insurance has fallen slightly since the early 1980's, and the rate for other racial groups has remained stable. Meanwhile, the uninsured rate among Hispanics has increased dramatically. In this paper, we estimate how differences between the two groups in citizenship, education, public coverage eligibility, income, and labor market participati...

This study is conducted to investigate the impact of migration on living standards households with migrants in context Vietnam. Data were collected from results Vietnam Household Living Standards time series. Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition was employed decompose source differences income between and without migrants. The show that multiyear dataset had a higher than nonmigrant households, differe...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES A decline in the prevalence of obesity among 2- to 5-year-olds in the United States was recently reported. This decline may be due to changes in the population composition of children over time or may be a consequence of changes in how strongly individual- or family-level factors are linked to childhood obesity. We applied regression decomposition techniques to identif...

This paper investigates the changes in the German wage structure for full– time working males from 1999 to 2006. Our analysis builds on the task–based approach introduced by Autor et al. (2003), as implemented by Spitz-Oener (2006) for Germany, and also accounts for job complexity. We perform a Blinder–Oaxaca type decomposition of the changes in the entire wage distribution between 1999 and 200...

researchers of postgraduate studies Division in the Technological Institute of Oaxaca.

background: infant mortality rate is a useful indicator of health conditions in the society, the racial and socioeconomic inequality of which is from the most important measures of social inequality. objectives: the aim of this study was to determine the socioeconomic inequality and its determinants regarding infant mortality in an iranian population. patients and methods: this cross-sectional ...