Final energy consumption and CO2 emissions in Iran increased by 67% and 81% between 2001 and 2011, respectively. The question is, what factors have been the drivers of energy consumption in this time interval? In order to answer this question, we use structural decomposition analysis and index...

We compare real wage differences between centralized and peripheral areas and highly centralized and peripheral areas using vast information of German administrative data that contains more than 2.8 Million individuals and 660,000 firms. We provide substantial empirical evidence that most of the...

We analyze the role of selection bias in generating the changes in the observed distribution of female hourly wages in the United States using CPS data for the years 1975 to 2020. We account for the selection bias from the employment decision by modeling the distribution of the number of working...

This paper addresses the input-output structural decomposition for an economic analysis. The objective is to determine the causes of changes in production in these sectors with a particular focus on disaggregating the technological change by distribution factors associated with a specific...