Alessandro Cigno
Research Fellow
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Alessandro Cigno is Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Florence since 1994. He is also President of CHILD, and a Fellow of CESifo (Munich) and IZA (Bonn). Professor Cigno received his Ph.D. in Mathematical Economics from the University of Birmingham (UK) in 1972, and has held permanent or visiting appointments at several universities in Europe, the USA and Latin America, including, as a full professor, Pisa, Hull and Wisconsin (Madison). He has served as a consultant for Cooperazione Italiana, UNICEF and the World Bank on matters relating to child labour and social security. He is also an editor of the Journal of Population Economics Professor Cigno's early research was concerned with the dynamic modelling of production and investment processes. Over the last three decades, however, his research has concentrated manly on household economics. His reputation is largely based on his contributions to the microeconomics of fertility, intergenerational transfers, and the optimal fiscal treatment of families. His work is published in several books (including Economics of the Family, 1991, and The Economics of Child Labour, 2005) and academic journals (including Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Journal of Public Economics, Oxford Economic Papers and Review of Economic Studies). In 1991, he was President of the European Society for Population Economics. Alessandro Cigno joined IZA as a Research Fellow in October 1999. |
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What's the Use of Marriage? |
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Optimal Family Policy in the Presence of Moral Hazard, When the Quantity and Quality of Children Are Stochastic |
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Is There a Social Security Tax Wedge? (published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (1), 68-77) |
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A Constitutional Theory of the Family (published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2006, 19 (2), 259-289) |
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Is There Such a Thing as a Family Constitution? A Test Based on Credit Rationing (published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2006, 4 (3), 183-204) |
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The Supply of Child Labour (edited version published as Ch. 2 of: A. Cigno and F. C. Rosati, The Economics of Child Labour, Oxford: OUP, 2005) |
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Hidden Information Problems in the Design of Family Allowances (published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2004, 17 (4), 645-655) |
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Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour? (published in: World Development, 30 (9), 2002, 1579-1589; see IZA Reprints 158/03) |
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Why do Indian Children Work, and is it Bad for Them? (published in: Pacific Economic Review, 2002, 7 (1), 65-84) |
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How to Avoid a Pension Crisis: A Question of Intelligent System Design |
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