rw-book-cover

Metadata

Highlights

the goal of decomposition methods are often quite ambitious, which means that strong assumptions typically underlie these types of exercises. I (View Highlight)

We limit our discussion to so-called “regression-based” decomposition methods, where the decomposition focuses on explanatory factors, rather than decomposition methods that apply to additively decomposable indices, where the decomposition pertains to population sub-groups. Bourguignon and Ferreira (2005) and Bourguignon et al. (2008) are recent surveys discussing these methods. (View Highlight)