Table 8 Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition of SWB inequality gap with RIF
Percentile Variables | \({{\varvec{R}}{\varvec{I}}{\varvec{F}}}_{5}\) | \({{\varvec{R}}{\varvec{I}}{\varvec{F}}}_{25}\) | \({{\varvec{R}}{\varvec{I}}{\varvec{F}}}_{50}\) | \({{\varvec{R}}{\varvec{I}}{\varvec{F}}}_{75}\) | \({{\varvec{R}}{\varvec{I}}{\varvec{F}}}_{95}\) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | EX | UN | EX | UN | EX | UN | EX | UN | EX | UN |
UHC | 0.066 (0.048) | 0.447 (0.291) | 0.009 (0.033) | -0.339* (0.203) | 0.009 (0.027) | -0.097 (0.177) | -0.010 (0.031) | -0.083 (0.195) | -0.030 (0.057) | 0.010 (0.391) |
Age | 0.071 (0.100) | -0.143 (0.993) | -0.055 (0.070) | -1.831*** (0.695) | -0.009 (0.057) | -0.974 (0.612) | 0.006 (0.065) | 0.061 (0.672) | -0.116 (0.121) | -1.905 (1.363) |
Education | 0.069 (0.104) | 0.802 (0.502) | 0.064 (0.072) | 0.691** (0.351) | 0.103* (0.060) | 0.567* (0.309) | 0.071 (0.067) | 0.090 (0.339) | 0.014 (0.125) | 0.070 (0.687) |
Economic status | -0.018 (0.030) | 0.067 (0.067) | 0.004 (0.021) | -0.015 (0.047) | -0.025 (0.018) | 0.058 (0.041) | -0.024 (0.020) | 0.022 (0.045) | 0.021 (0.036) | -0.083 (0.089) |
GDP | 0.120 (0.085) | 0.043 (0.079) | 0.147** (0.060) | -0.064 (0.056) | 0.069 (0.049) | -0.064 (0.052) | 0.062 (0.055) | -0.065 (0.056) | 0.039 (0.102) | 0.050 (0.119) |
Sex ratio | -0.006 (0.024) | 0.061 (0.747) | -0.019 (0.017) | 0.332 (0.507) | -0.013 (0.014) | 0.236 (0.451) | -0.005 (0.015) | 0.069 (0.493) | 0.070** (0.034) | 1.343 (1.011) |
Marital status | -0.003 (0.016) | 0.199 (0.191) | -0.002 (0.011) | 0.183 (0.134) | -0.013 (0.011) | 0.116 (0.117) | 0.006 (0.011) | -0.103 (0.129) | -0.001 (0.019) | 0.073 (0.258) |
Unemployment | 0.024 (0.024) | -0.053 (0.132) | -0.003 (0.016) | 0.189** (0.093) | -0.005 (0.013) | 0.147* (0.079) | 0.006 (0.015) | 0.089 (0.088) | 0.009 (0.027) | 0.110 (0.171) |
Political position | 0.058 (0.045) | -1.057 (0.793) | -0.017 (0.030) | -0.381 (0.552) | -0.003 (0.025) | -0.367 (0.469) | 0.021 (0.029) | -0.266 (0.524) | 0.072 (0.054) | -0.675 (1.018) |
Effectiveness of the gov’t | -0.064 (0.126) | 0.005 (0.021) | 0.070 (0.087) | 0.008 (0.015) | 0.334*** (0.074) | -0.032* (0.795) | 0.478*** (0.085) | -0.059** (0.023) | 0.525*** (0.154) | -0.055 (0.034) |
Constant | Â | 0.511 (1.332) | Â | 1.340 (0.928) | Â | 0.307 (0.016) | Â | -0.060 (0.884) | Â | -0.819 (1.733) |
Overall | ||||||||||
 Group1 (developing) | 1.805*** (0.045) |  | 2.127*** (0.036) |  | 2.310*** (0.031) |  | 2.466*** (0.032) |  | 2.844*** (0068) |  |
 Group2 (developed) | 1.570*** (0.040) |  | 1.814*** (0.030) |  | 1.967*** (0.029) |  | 2.160*** (0.035) |  | 2.484*** (0.052) |  |
 Difference | 0.235*** (0.061) |  | 0.312*** (0.047) |  | 0.343*** (0.043) |  | 0.306*** (0.048) |  | 0.360*** (0.085) |  |
 Explained | 0.322** (0.148) |  | 0.198* (0.195) |  | 0.446*** (0.087) |  | 0.610*** (0.100) |  | 0.603*** (0.180) |  |
 Unexplained | -0.087 (0.159) |  | 0.114 (0.111) |  | -0.103 (0.092) |  | -0.305*** (0.104) |  | -0.243 (0.196) |  |