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Alessandro Cigno

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Working papers

  1. Cigno, Alessandro & Luporini, Annalisa, 2009. "Optimal Family Policy in the Presence of Moral Hazard, When the Quantity and Quality of Children Are Stochastic," IZA Discussion Papers 4179, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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  2. Alessandro Cigno, 2009. "How to avoid a pension crisis: A question of intelligent system design," CHILD Working Papers wp04_09, CHILD - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics - ITALY. [Downloadable!]
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  3. Alessandro Cigno, 2009. "Agency in Family Policy: A Survey," CESifo Working Paper Series CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich. [Downloadable!]
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  4. Alessandro Cigno, 2008. "Whatever happened to the domestic division of labour? A theoretical analysis of the effects of legislation on marriage, fertility and participation," CHILD Working Papers wp09_08, CHILD - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics - ITALY. [Downloadable!]

  5. Alessandro Cigno, 2007. "A Theoretical Analysis of the Effects of Legislation on Marriage, Fertility, Domestic Division of Labour, and the Education of Children," CESifo Working Paper Series CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich. [Downloadable!]

  6. Alessandro Cigno, 2006. "Is There a Social Security Tax Wedge?," IZA Discussion Papers 1967, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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  7. Alessandro Cigno & Annalisa Luporini, 2006. "Optimal Policy Towards Families with Di¤erent Amounts of Social Capital, in the Presence of Asymmetric Information and Stochastic Fertility," CHILD Working Papers wp03_06, CHILD - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics - ITALY. [Downloadable!]
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  8. Alessandro Cigno, 2006. "A gender-neutral approach to gender issues," CHILD Working Papers wp19_06, CHILD - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics - ITALY. [Downloadable!]

  9. Alessandro Cigno, 2005. "A Constitutional Theory of the Family," IZA Discussion Papers 1797, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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  10. Cigno, Alessandro, 2004. "The Supply of Child Labour," IZA Discussion Papers 1114, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]

  11. Cigno, Alessandro & Giannelli, Gianna C. & Rosati, Furio C. & Vuri, Daniela, 2004. "Is There Such a Thing as a Family Constitution? A Test Based on Credit Rationing," IZA Discussion Papers 1116, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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  12. Alessandro Cigno, 2003. "The Political Economy of Intergenerational Cooperation," CHILD Working Papers wp05_03, CHILD - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics - ITALY. [Downloadable!]
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  13. Cigno, Alessandro & Luporini, Annalisa & Pettini, Anna, 2003. "Hidden Information Problems in the Design of Family Allowances," IZA Discussion Papers 790, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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  14. Alessandro Cigno & Annalisa Luporini, 2003. "Scholarships or Student Loans? Subsidizing Higher Education in the Presence of Moral Hazard," CESifo Working Paper Series CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich. [Downloadable!]
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  15. Cigno, Alessandro & Rosati, Furio C. & Guarcello, Lorenzo, 2002. "Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?," IZA Discussion Papers 470, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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  16. Alessandro Cigno & Annalisa Luporini & Anna Pettini, 2002. "JOINT DECISIONS ON HOUSEHOLD MEMBERSHIP AND HUMAN CAPITAL ACCUMULATION OF YOUTHS The role of expected earnings and local markets," CHILD Working Papers wp02_02, CHILD - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics - ITALY. [Downloadable!]

  17. Cigno, Alessandro & Rosati, Furio C., 2000. "Why do Indian Children Work, and is it Bad for Them?," IZA Discussion Papers 115, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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  18. Alessandro Cigno & Annalisa Luporini & Anna Pettini, 2000. "Endogenous Fertility And The Design Of Family Taxation," CHILD Working Papers wp03_00, CHILD - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics - ITALY. [Downloadable!]
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  19. Alessandro Cigno & Luca Casolaro & Furio C. Rosati, 2000. "The Role of Social Security in Household Decisions: Var Estimates of Saving and Fertility Behaviour in Germany," CESifo Working Paper Series CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich. [Downloadable!]
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  20. Alessandro Cigno & Annalisa Luporini & Anna Pettini, 2000. "Transfers to Families with Children as a Principal-Agent Problem," CESifo Working Paper Series CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich. [Downloadable!]
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  21. Balestrino. Allessandro & Cigno, Allessandro & Pettini, Anna, 1999. "Direct and Indirect Taxation when Households Differ in Market and Non-market Abilities," CESifo Working Paper Series CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich. [Downloadable!]

  22. Cigno, Alessandro & Pettini, Anna, 1999. "Taxing Family Size and Subsidising Child-specific Commodities? Optimal Fiscal Treatment of Households with Endogenous Fertility," CESifo Working Paper Series CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich. [Downloadable!]

Articles

  1. Alessandro Cigno & Annalisa Luporini, 2009. "Scholarships or Student Loans? Subsidizing Higher Education in the Presence of Moral Hazard," Journal of Public Economic Theory, Association for Public Economic Theory, vol. 11(1), pages 55-87, 02. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  2. Cigno, Alessandro, 2008. "Is there a social security tax wedge," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 15(1), pages 68-77, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  3. Alessandro Cigno, 2007. "Low fertility in Europe: Is the pension system the victim or the culprit? Introduction by Alessandro Cigno," CESifo Forum, Ifo Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 8(3), pages 37-42, October. [Downloadable!]

  4. Alessandro Cigno & Gianna Giannelli & Furio Rosati & Daniela Vuri, 2006. "Is there such a thing as a family constitution? A test based on credit rationing," Review of Economics of the Household, Springer, vol. 4(3), pages 183-204, 09. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  5. Alessandro Cigno, 2006. "A constitutional theory of the family," Journal of Population Economics, Springer, vol. 19(2), pages 259-283, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  6. Alessandro Cigno & Annalisa Luporini & Anna Pettini, 2004. "Hidden information problems in the design of family allowances," Journal of Population Economics, Springer, vol. 17(4), pages 645-655, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  7. Alessandro Balestrino & Alessandro Cigno & Anna Pettini, 2003. "Doing Wonders with an Egg: Optimal Re-distribution When Households Differ in Market and Non-Market Abilities," Journal of Public Economic Theory, Association for Public Economic Theory, vol. 5(3), pages 479-498, 07. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  8. Cigno, Alessandro & Luporini, Annalisa & Pettini, Anna, 2003. "Transfers to families with children as a principal-agent problem," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 87(5-6), pages 1165-1177, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  9. Alessandro Cigno & Luca Casolaro & Furio C. Rosati, 2002. "The Impact of Social Security on Saving and Fertility in Germany," FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, vol. 59(2), pages 189-, May.

  10. Alessandro Balestrino & Alessandro Cigno & Anna Pettini, 2002. "Endogenous Fertility and the Design of Family Taxation," International Tax and Public Finance, Springer, vol. 9(2), pages 175-193, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  11. Cigno, Alessandro & Rosati, Furio C. & Guarcello, Lorenzo, 2002. "Does Globalization Increase Child Labor?," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 30(9), pages 1579-1589, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  12. Cigno, Alessandro & Pettini, Anna, 2002. "Taxing family size and subsidizing child-specific commodities?," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 84(1), pages 75-90, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  13. Alessandro Cigno, 2001. "Comparative Advantage, Observability, and the Optimal Tax Treatment of Families with Children," International Tax and Public Finance, Springer, vol. 8(4), pages 455-470, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  14. Alessandro Cigno, 1998. "Fertility decisions when infant survival is endogenous," Journal of Population Economics, Springer, vol. 11(1), pages 21-28. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  15. Cigno, Alessandro & C. Giannelli, Gianna & Rosati, Furio C., 1998. "Voluntary transfers among Italian households: altruistic and non-altruistic explanations," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, vol. 9(4), pages 435-451, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  16. Cigno, Alessandro & Camillio Rosati, Furio, 1997. "Rise and fall of the Japanese saving rate: The role of social security and intra-family transfers," Japan and the World Economy, Elsevier, vol. 9(1), pages 81-92, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  17. Cigno, Alessandro & Rosati, Furio C., 1996. "Jointly determined saving and fertility behaviour: Theory, and estimates for Germany, Italy, UK and USA," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 40(8), pages 1561-1589, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  18. Cigno, Alessandro, 1995. "Public pensions with endogenous fertility: Comment on Nishimura and Zhang," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 57(1), pages 169-173, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  19. Cigno, Alessandro, 1993. "Intergenerational transfers without altruism : Family, market and state," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 9(4), pages 505-518, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  20. Cigno, Alessandro, 1992. "Saving and Age Structure: Introduction," Journal of Population Economics, Springer, vol. 5(4), pages 257-60.

  21. Cigno, Alessandro, 1992. "Children and Pensions," Journal of Population Economics, Springer, vol. 5(3), pages 175-83, August.
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  22. Cigno, Alessandro & Rosati, Furio Camillo, 1992. "The Effects of Financial Markets and Social Security on Saving and Fertility Behaviour in Italy," Journal of Population Economics, Springer, vol. 5(4), pages 319-41.

  23. Barmby, T & Cigno, A, 1990. "A Sequential Probability Model of Fertility Patterns," Journal of Population Economics, Springer, vol. 3(1), pages 31-51, April.

  24. Cigno, Alessandro & Ermisch, John, 1989. "A microeconomic analysis of the timing of births," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 33(4), pages 737-760, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  25. Cigno, Alessandro, 1986. "Fertility and the Tax-Benefit System: A Reconsideration of the Theory of Family Taxation," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 96(384), pages 1035-51, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  26. Cigno, Alessandro, 1984. "Further Implications of Learning by Doing: The Effect of Population on Per-Capita Income," Bulletin of Economic Research, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 36(2), pages 97-108, November.

  27. Cigno, Alessandro, 1983. "On Optimal Family Allowances," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 35(1), pages 13-22, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  28. Cigno, Alessandro, 1983. "Corrigendum [On Optimal Family Allowances]," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 35(2), pages 329, July.

  29. Cigno, Alessandro, 1983. "Human capital and the time-profile of human fertility," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 13(4), pages 385-392. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  30. Cigno, Alessandro, 1981. "Growth with Exhaustible Resources and Endogenous Population," Review of Economic Studies, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 48(2), pages 281-87, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  31. Cigno, A, 1979. "Search and Consumer Surplus: A Generalization," Bulletin of Economic Research, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 31(2), pages 98-99, November.

  32. A. Cigno, 1971. "Economies of scale and industrial location," Regional Studies, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 5(4), pages 295-301, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  33. Cigno, Alessandro, 1971. "Production and Investment Response to Changing Market Conditions, Technical Know-how, and Government Policies," Review of Economic Studies, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 38(113), pages 63-94, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

Chapters

  1. Cigno, Alessandro, 2006. "The political economy of intergenerational cooperation," Handbook on the Economics of Giving, Reciprocity and Altruism, Elsevier. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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Books

  1. Alessandro Cigno & Martin Werding, 2007. "Children and Pensions," MIT Press Books, The MIT Press, edition 1, volume 1, number 0262033690.
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NEP Fields

20 papers by this author were announced in NEP, and specifically in the following field reports (number of papers):
  1. NEP-AGE: Economics of Ageing (1) 2009-04-13
  2. NEP-CTA: Contract Theory & Applications (3) 2009-06-03 2009-09-19 2009-09-19
  3. NEP-DEV: Development (1) 2000-02-28
  4. NEP-EDU: Education (3) 2004-05-02 2006-01-29 2007-08-18
  5. NEP-HRM: Human Capital & Human Resource Management (1) 2007-08-18
  6. NEP-LAB: Labour Economics (8) 2000-02-28 2002-05-03 2004-04-18 2006-02-12 2006-04-01 2006-10-07 2008-06-21 2009-04-13 Author is listed
  7. NEP-LAW: Law & Economics (1) 2008-06-21
  8. NEP-PBE: Public Economics (8) 2003-06-25 2005-10-22 2005-12-20 2006-01-29 2006-02-12 2006-04-01 2006-04-08 2006-10-07 Author is listed
  9. NEP-PUB: Public Finance (2) 2006-02-12 2006-10-07
  10. NEP-SOC: Social Norms & Social Capital (4) 2005-12-20 2006-04-01 2006-04-08 2007-08-18
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