Events
2009 CHCPR Methods Workshop
Using the Oaxaca Decomposition to Analyze Health and Health Care Disparities
Led By
Thomas M. Selden, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Date: November 6, 2009
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. (lunch break from noon-1:00 p.m.)
Place:
Morning session (10 am - noon) 124 Ag Engineering Building
Afternoon session (1 - 3 pm) 208 Ford Building
Lunch (noon - 1 pm) - While lunch is not provided, the workshop organizers have arranged two options for participants to gather at lunchtime.
Room 215 Business Building has been reserved for workshop participants who would like to purchase lunch at the Blue Chip Bistro and eat together.
Room 601-K Ford Building has been reserved as a second location where participants can get together
with brown bag or carry-out lunches from other campus eateries. Note that the afternoon session will be held in Room 208 of the Ford Building.
Program Description
The Oaxaca Decomposition procedure was first introduced in economics as a way of analyzing the gap in average wages between male and female workers (Ronald L. Oaxaca, "Male-Female Wage Differentials in Urban Labor Markets." International Economic Review, October 1973, Vol 14, 693-709). This workshop will introduce participants to Oaxaca's conceptual framework, which identifies two factors contributing to differences in group means, while illustrating the relevance of the framework to the analysis and interpretation of health disparities. The statistical methods covered in the workshop will include not only Oaxaca's original, regression-based procedure for decomposing differences in continuous outcomes, but also recently developed parametric and non-parametric approaches to decomposing differences in discrete outcomes.
For more information, contact Pamela Farley Short, Director of the Center for Health Care and Policy Research (pamshort@psu.edu).