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Recentered influence functions (RIFs) in Stata: RIF regression and RIF decomposition

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  • Fernando Rios-Avila

    (Levy Economics Institute of Bard College)

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Recentered influence functions (RIFs) are statistical tools popularized by Firpo, Fortin, and Lemieux (2009, Econometrica 77: 953–973) for analyzing unconditional partial effects on quantiles in a regression analysis framework (un- conditional quantile regressions). The flexibility and simplicity of these tools have opened the possibility to extend the analysis to other distributional statistics us- ing linear regressions or decomposition approaches. In this article, I introduce one function and two commands to facilitate the use of RIFs in the analysis of outcome distributions: rifvar() is an egen extension used to create RIFs for a large set of distributional statistics, rifhdreg facilitates the estimation of RIF regressions enabling the use of high-dimensional fixed effects, and oaxaca rif implements Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition analysis (RIF decompositions).

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  • Fernando Rios-Avila, 2020. "Recentered influence functions (RIFs) in Stata: RIF regression and RIF decomposition," Stata Journal, StataCorp LLC, vol. 20(1), pages 51-94, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:tsj:stataj:v:20:y:2020:i:1:p:51-94
    DOI: 10.1177/1536867X20909690
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