This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of decomposition methods that have been developed since the seminal work … the decomposition, as well as various estimation methods proposed in the literature. We also illustrate how these methods …

underlying mechanisms and is not evidence for, say, heterogeneous discrimination. Finally, we discuss our main empirical findings … in the light of simple taste-based vs. statistical discrimination models. …

differences in achievement into gender differences in endowments and returns to IQ and non-cognitive factors. This descriptive … resources and take similar advantage of these resources. Our findings indicate that gender differences in resources with respect …