body mass index rather than a change in the shape of the distribution. Finally a semi-parametric decomposition of the …

-growth-retardation. It also carries out a decomposition of this index for the different sources of low birthweight and finds that income … conditions appear to be more relevant for IUGR. The application of the standard Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition also indicates that …

part using a modified Blinder-Oaxaca procedure. This decomposition suggests that the observed convergence is just weakly …

decomposition analysis shows that differences in union density over time and between eastern and western Germany to a large degree …

imputed data. The difference in the test scores is assigned to different effects, using a Juhn-Murphy-Pierce decomposition …

We present a decomposition approach for integrated assessment modeling of climate policy based on a linear … approximation of the climate system. Our objective is to demonstrate the usefulness of decomposition for integrated assessment … models posed in a complementarity format. First, the complementarity formulation cum decomposition permits a precise …