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    <title>Social divisions in school participation and attainment in India: 1983 - 2004</title>
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    <description>Title: Social divisions in school participation and attainment in India: 1983 - 2004
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Niaz Asadullah, M.; Kambhampati, Uma; López Bóo, Florencia
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: This study documents the size and nature of 'boy-girl' and 'Hindu-Muslim' gaps in children's school participation and attainments in India. Individual-level data from two successive rounds of the National Sample Survey suggest that considerable progress has been made in decreasing the Hindu-Muslim gap. Nonetheless, the gap remains sizable even after controlling for numerous socioeconomic and parental covariates, and the Muslim educational disadvantage in India today is greater than that experienced by girls and Scheduled Caste Hindu children. A gender gap still appears within as well as between communities, though it is smaller within Muslim communities. While differences in gender and other demographic and socio-economic covariates have recently become more important in explaining the Hindu-Muslim gap, those differences altogether explain only 25 percent to 45 percent of the observed schooling gap.</description>
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    <title>Do credit rating agencies add value? Evidence from the sovereign rating business institutions</title>
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    <description>Title: Do credit rating agencies add value? Evidence from the sovereign rating business institutions
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Cavallo, Eduardo A.; Powell, Andrew; Rigobón, Roberto
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: If rating agencies add no new information to markets, their actions are not a public policy concern. But as rating changes may be anticipated, testing whether ratings add value is not straightforward. This paper argues that ratings and spreads are both noisy signals of fundamentals and suggest ratings add value if, controlling for spreads, they help explain other variables. The paper additionally analyzes the different actions (ratings and outlooks) of the three leading agencies for sovereign debt, also considering the differing effects of more or less anticipated events. The results are consistent across a wide range of tests. Ratings do matter and hence how the market for ratings functions may be a public policy concern.</description>
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    <title>On the determinants and effects of political influence</title>
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    <description>Title: On the determinants and effects of political influence
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Chong, Alberto; Gradstein, Mark
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: This paper uses a large cross-country survey of business firms to assess their influence on government policies. It is found that influence is associated with larger, government-owned firms that have a high degree of ownership concentration. In contrast, foreign ownership matters little. It is also found that the extent to which government policies and legislation are viewed as impeding firm growth decreases with political influence and, independently, with a country's level of institutional quality.</description>
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    <title>No education, no good jobs? Evidence from the relationship between education and labor market segmentation</title>
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    <description>Title: No education, no good jobs? Evidence from the relationship between education and labor market segmentation
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Pagés, Carmen; Stampini, Marco
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs and self-employment in three Latin American and three transition countries. It looks separately at the markets for skilled and unskilled labor, inquiring if segmentation is an exclusive feature of the latter. Longitudinal data are used to assess wage differentials and mobility patterns across jobs. To study mobility, the paper compares observed transitions with a new benchmark measure of mobility under the assumption of no segmentation. It finds evidence of a formal wage premium relative to informal salaried jobs in the three Latin American countries, but not in transition economies. It also finds evidence of extensive mobility across these two types of jobs in all countries, particularly from informal salaried to formal jobs. These patterns are suggestive of a preference for formal over informal salaried jobs in all countries. In contrast, there is little mobility between self-employment and formal salaried jobs, suggesting the existence of barriers to this type of mobility or a strong assortative matching according to workers' individual preferences. Lastly, for both wage differentials and mobility, there is no statistical difference across skill levels, indicating that the markets for skilled and unskilled labor are similarly affected by segmentation.</description>
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