1Departamento de Biomedicina Molecular, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, 07000 México, DF, Mexico 2Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, UNAM, 04510 México, DF, Mexico 3Facultad de Ciencias Quı́micas, Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, 68120 Oaxaca, Mexico 4Unidad Monterrey, Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados del IPN, 66600 Monterrey, Mexico 5...

In Chile, indigenous students obtain lower test scores, on average, than nonindigenous students. Between two cohorts of eighth-graders in the late 1990s, the test score gap declined by 0.1 to 0.2 standard deviations. An Oaxaca decomposition and related descriptive evidence suggest that the most plausible explanation is related to Chile’s large-scale school reforms that were targeted at low-achi...

Horrace and Oaxaca (2001) treat the regressors in gender wage gap by industry measures as non-stochastic when computing the corresponding standard errors. However, the non-stochastic regressors assumption is thought to be inappropriate in modern econometrics. In this paper, we derive the correct standard errors for the measures proposed by Horrace and Oaxaca (2001). We then empirically apply th...

Copyright: © 2016 Machado S et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Common Attributions License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation: Machado S, Lattari E, Paes F, et al. Is EEG asymmetry a predictor of mood in practitioners of aerobic exercise?. 201...

Background Visual acuity, like many other health-related problems, does not have an equal distribution in terms of socio-economic factors. We conducted this study to estimate and decompose economic inequality in presenting visual acuity using two methods and to compare their results in a population aged 40-64 years in Shahroud, Iran.   Methods: The data of 5188 participants in the first phase o...

OBJECTIVES Although the burden of lead poisoning has decreased across developed countries, it remains the most prevalent environmental poison worldwide. Our objective was to investigate the sources of an outbreak of lead poisoning in Monterey County, California. METHODS An investigation in 3 county health department clinics in Monterey County, California, was conducted between 2001 and 2003 t...

An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition to a Continuum of Comparison Groups This paper proposes an extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition from two to a continuum of comparison groups. The proposed decomposition is then estimated for the case of racial wage differences in urban Peru, exploiting a novel data set that allows the capturing of mestizaje (racial mixtures). JEL Classif...

The counterfactual decomposition technique popularized by Blinder (1973, Journal of Human Resources, 436–455) and Oaxaca (1973, International Economic Review, 693–709) is widely used to study mean outcome differences between groups. For example, the technique is often used to analyze wage gaps by sex or race. This article summarizes the technique and addresses several complications, such as the...

Machado-Joseph disease or Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 is a progressive fatal neurodegenerative disorder caused by the polyglutamine-expanded protein ataxin-3. Recent studies demonstrate that RNA interference is a promising approach for the treatment of Machado-Joseph disease. However, whether gene silencing at an early time-point is able to prevent the appearance of motor behavior deficits ty...

The distinct feature of Bhutan is its special attention to peace, prosperity and happiness for its people. This research focuses on the expenditure inequality for 2007 and 2012 using various measurements including Gini Coefficients, Theil Indices and Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition. The results show that “between” rather than “within” inequality is the major factor contributing to the overall ineq...