Overview
Robert W. Fairlie is an American economist (Professor of Economics, University of California — Santa Cruz, later UCLA) specializing in labor economics, entrepreneurship and self-employment, and racial and gender disparities in economic outcomes.
Key Contributions / Features
- Nonlinear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition (Fairlie 2005): a simulation/matching method extending the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition to binary outcomes with logit/probit models (Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition), widely used to decompose racial and gender gaps in employment and business ownership.
- Extensive empirical work on entrepreneurship, minority self-employment, and the digital divide.
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