Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/53074 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Discussion Paper No. 2002/101
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
This paper explores pitfalls in regression-based inequality decompositions. A simple procedure is developed for rectifying these pitfalls. The procedure does not impose any restrictions on the underlying regression model and it can be applied to any inequality measure(s). Once combined with conventional decomposition methods or the Shapley value approach of Shorrocks (1999), what is being proposed becomes a most general and powerful framework for regression-based inequality decomposition. Empirical examples are provided to demonstrate the use of the procedure, and to contrast our results with those based on recent developments of Fields and Yoo (2000) and Morduch and Sicular (2002).
Subjects: 
regression-based decomposition
inequality
income-generating function
China
JEL: 
O15
C43
C63
ISBN: 
9291903299
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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