R help - Feb 2010 - Blinder-Oaxaca decompositions

I'm looking for a routine in R to do Blinder-Oaxaca (and related)
decompositions. A very nice one has been written (by Jann) for Stata
(and I'm evaluating whether I can switch over to R). I'm having a hard
time finding any reference in R documentation to this pretty
ubiquitous tool (in labour economics)  for decomposing differences
between two groups into differences in means and differences in
coefficients.

In general, I find it tough to google on R functions and capabilities,
because putting "R" as a search term is a weak criterion. Any tricks
for googling re: R?

Thanks for any advice,
Chris

On Feb 11, 2010, at 3:46 PM, Christopher wrote:
> I'm looking for a routine in R to do Blinder-Oaxaca (and related)
> decompositions. A very nice one has been written (by Jann) for Stata
> (and I'm evaluating whether I can switch over to R). I'm having a
hard
> time finding any reference in R documentation to this pretty
> ubiquitous tool (in labour economics)  for decomposing differences
> between two groups into differences in means and differences in
> coefficients.
>
> In general, I find it tough to google on R functions and capabilities,
> because putting "R" as a search term is a weak criterion. Any
tricks
> for googling re: R?
Three options to improve your R searching:

rseek.org with your browser
RSieSearch()  from R and this drops you into your browser
add "r-project" to your search terms

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David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT