Life-Course-Sensitive Analysis of Group Inequalities
This reference note points to the article that motivates Sequenzo's SA-KOB decomposition workflow.
Citation
Rowold, C., Struffolino, E., & Fasang, A. E. (2025). Life-course-sensitive analysis of group inequalities: Combining sequence analysis with the Kitagawa-Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition. Sociological Methods & Research, 54(2), 646-705. https://doi.org/10.1177/00491241231224226
Why This Paper Matters for Sequenzo
Rowold, Struffolino, and Fasang show how sequence-analysis typologies can be combined with Kitagawa-Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition to separate two descriptive components of group inequality:
- Differences in the distribution of life-course patterns across groups.
- Differences in returns to similar life-course patterns.
Sequenzo's SA-KOB functions follow this logic by taking cluster labels from sequence analysis, constructing the decomposition design, and reporting cluster-level composition and returns components.