%0 Report %A Yun, Myeong-Su %T Decomposing Differences in the First Moment %D 2003 %8 2003 Sep %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) %C Bonn %7 IZA Discussion Paper %N 877 %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp877 %X We propose a simple methodology for decomposing differences in the first moment into characteristics and coefficients effects. This methodology provides a way to apply the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition to a non-linear function for both aggregate and detailed decompositions. %K coefficients effect %K characteristics effect %K decomposition analysis