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Alessandro Cigno is Professor of Economics at the University of Florence since 1994. He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in October 1999. He is also President of CHILD (Turin), and a Fellow of CESifo (Munich), IZA (Bonn) and RCEA (Rimini). In 1991, he was President of the European Society for Population Economics.
Professor Cigno received his Ph.D. in Mathematical Economics from the University of Birmingham (UK) in 1972. He has held permanent academic appointments in Italy and the UK, and visiting ones in Argentina, Australia, France, Germany, Guatemala, Japan and the USA. He has also served as a consultant for Cooperazione Italiana, UNICEF and the World Bank on matters relating to child labour and social security.
His research is concerned mainy with household economics and intergenerational relations, in particular with the microeconomics of fertility, the optimal fiscal treatment of families and the design of pension systems. His work is published in several books (including Economics of the Family, OUP 1991, The Economics of Child Labour, OUP 2005, and Children and Pensions, MIT Press 2007) and many academic journals (including the Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Journal of Public Economics, Oxford Economic Papers, Review of Economic Studies and World Bank Economic Review). He is an editor of the Journal of Population Economics.
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IZA Discussion Papers:
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How to Deal with Covert Child Labour, and Give Children an Effective Education, in a Poor Developing Country
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2012, 26 (1), 61-67) |
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What's the Use of Marriage?
(published as 'Marriage as a commitment device' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2012, 10 (2), 171-192) |
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Alessandro Cigno
Annalisa Luporini
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Optimal Family Policy in the Presence of Moral Hazard, When the Quantity and Quality of Children Are Stochastic
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2011, 57 (2), 349-364) |
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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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Alessandro Cigno
Gianna Claudia Giannelli
Furio C. Rosati
Daniela Vuri
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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 Chapter 2 of: A. Cigno and F. C. Rosati (eds.), The Economics of Child Labour, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005) |
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Alessandro Cigno
Annalisa Luporini
Anna Pettini
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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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Alessandro Cigno
Furio C. Rosati
Lorenzo Guarcello
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Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?
(published in: World Development, 2002, 30 (9), 1579-1589;
see IZA Reprints 158/03) |
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Alessandro Cigno
Furio C. Rosati
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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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IZA Policy Papers:
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How to Avoid a Pension Crisis: A Question of Intelligent System Design
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2010, 56, 21-37) |
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