inequality across racial and ethnic groups in food expenditures and in the resources needed to meet basic food needs (the "food … levels into three components: eligibility, participation, and generosity. This decomposition is then linked to differences in …

The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique is widely used to identify and quantify the separate contributions of group … simple method of performing a decomposition that uses estimates from a logit or probit model. Expanding on the original … the sensitivity of the decomposition estimates to different parameters, and the calculation of standard errors. I also …