Article · Applied Economics Letters

Endowments help; returns do not: unconditional quantile regression decomposition of Indonesia's gender expenditure gap

Mitsuhiko Kataoka January 24, 2026
Inequality & disparities

This paper applies an unconditional quantile regression (RIF) decomposition to Indonesia’s gender expenditure gap, finding that differences in endowments help narrow the gap while differences in returns (coefficients) do not.

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