This note presents a general way to decompose differences over time or between objects into the <italic>ceteris paribus</italic> effects and the interaction effects of an arbitrary number of factors. The decomposition addresses the issue of interaction effects between factors which have been neglected in the...

This note develops a method for computing confidence intervals for estimates of decomposable inequality indices when the sample is characterized by contemporaneous dependence across members of the same household. This is particularly relevant in the context of measuring inequality among wage...