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Rules, preferences and evolution from the family angle,
Alessandro Cigno, from Global Labor Organization (GLO) (2021)
Keywords: Evolution, preferences, rules, socialization, matching

A strictly economic explanation of gender roles: The lasting legacy of the plough,
Alessandro Cigno, from Global Labor Organization (GLO) (2020)
Keywords: Plough, comparative advantage, gender, matching, hold-up problem, contract enforcement, migration

Lectures on fertility, savings, inter-generational transfers and gender,
Alessandro Cigno, from University of Rostock, Institute of Economics (2011)

How to Avoid a Pension Crisis: A Question of Intelligent System Design,
Alessandro Cigno, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2009)
Keywords: labour productivity, fertility, child benefits, implicit pension taxes and subsidies, pension reform

Public pensions with endogenous fertility: Comment on Nishimura and Zhang,
Alessandro Cigno, in Journal of Public Economics (1995)

The Economics of Marriage,
Alessandro Cigno, in Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik (2011)

Further Implications of Learning by Doing: The Effect of Population on Per-Capita Income,
Alessandro Cigno, in Bulletin of Economic Research (1984)

Search and Consumer Surplus: A Generalization,
Alessandro Cigno, in Bulletin of Economic Research (1979)

Human capital and the time-profile of human fertility,
Alessandro Cigno, in Economics Letters (1983)

Comparative Advantage, Observability, and the Optimal Tax Treatment of Families with Children,
Alessandro Cigno, in International Tax and Public Finance (2001)
Keywords: comparative advantage, fertility, income and commodity taxation, child benefits, self selection, incentive compatibility,

A strictly economic explanation of gender roles: the lasting legacy of the plough,
Alessandro Cigno, in Review of Economics of the Household (2022)
Keywords: Plough, Comparative advantage, Gender, Matching, Hold-up problem, ConSiminskitract enforcement, Migration

Marriage as a commitment device,
Alessandro Cigno, in Review of Economics of the Household (2012)
Keywords: Gender, Children, Marriage, Separate property, Community property, Divorce, Married women’s labour participation, D13, J12, J13, J16, J24,

How to Avoid a Pension Crisis: A Question of Intelligent System Design *,
Alessandro Cigno, in CESifo Economic Studies (2010)

Globalisation Can Help Reduce Child Labour,
Alessandro Cigno, in CESifo Economic Studies (2003)

Is Marriage as Good as a Contract?,
Alessandro Cigno, in CESifo Economic Studies (2014)

Agency in Family Policy: A Survey,
Alessandro Cigno, in CESifo Economic Studies (2011)

How to Deal with Covert Child Labor and Give Children an Effective Education, in a Poor Developing Country,
Alessandro Cigno, in The World Bank Economic Review (2012)

Intergenerational transfers without altruism: Family, market and state,
Alessandro Cigno, in European Journal of Political Economy (1993)

Production and Investment Response to Changing Market Conditions, Technical Know-How, and Government PoliciesA Vintage Model of the Agricultural Sector,
Alessandro Cigno, in The Review of Economic Studies (1971)

Growth with Exhaustible Resources and Endogenous Population,
Alessandro Cigno, in The Review of Economic Studies (1981)

On Optimal Family Allowances,
Alessandro Cigno, in Oxford Economic Papers (1983)

Corrigendum [On Optimal Family Allowances],
Alessandro Cigno, in Oxford Economic Papers (1983)

Conflict and Cooperation Within the Family, and Between the State and the Family, in the Provision of Old-Age Security,
Alessandro Cigno, from Elsevier (2016)
Keywords: Private savings; Public pensions; Inter vivos transfers; Bequests; Care of the elderly; Family rules; Fertility; Longevity; Informational asymmetries; D7; D82; D91; H2; H31; H5; I2; J1;

Saving and Age Structure: Introduction,
Alessandro Cigno, in Journal of Population Economics (1992)

Fertility decisions when infant survival is endogenous,
Alessandro Cigno, in Journal of Population Economics (1998)
Keywords: Endogeneous fertility · endogenous infant · mortality · development

Children and Pensions,
Alessandro Cigno, in Journal of Population Economics (1992)

Can a ban on child labour be self-enforcing, and would it be efficient?,
Alessandro Cigno, in Journal of Population Economics (2024)
Keywords: Child labour, Education, Fertility, Credit, Taxes, Subsidies, Uncertainty, Asymmetric information

A constitutional theory of the family,
Alessandro Cigno, in Journal of Population Economics (2006)
Keywords: Families, Self-enforcing constitutions, Renegotiation-proofness, Altruism, Fertility, Saving, Transfers, Attention, Pensions, Credit rationing, C72, D02, D13, D71, D74, D91, H55, J13, J14,

How to Deal with Covert Child Labour, and Give Children an Effective Education, in a Poor Developing Country: An Optimal Taxation Problem with Moral Hazard,
Alessandro Cigno, from Center for Intergenerational Studies, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University (2010)
Keywords: child labour, education, uncertainty, moral hazard

The Economics of Child Labour,
Alessandro Cigno, from Edward Elgar Publishing (2009)
Keywords: Economics and Finance, Law - Academic,

The Political Economy of Intergenerational Cooperation,
Alessandro Cigno, from CESifo (2005)
Keywords: intergenerational cooperation, family, fertility, saving, private transfers, education, child benefits, pensions, self-enforcing constitutions, direct democracy, representative democracy, constitutions

How to Deal with Covert Child Labour, and Give Children an Effective Education, in a Poor Developing Country: An Optimal Taxation Problem with Moral Hazard,
Alessandro Cigno, from CESifo (2010)
Keywords: child labour, education, uncertainty, moral hazard

Agency in Family Policy: A Survey,
Alessandro Cigno, from CESifo (2009)
Keywords: optimal taxation, optimal family allowances, hidden ability to raise children, hidden educational investments, endogenous and exogenous fertility

How to Avoid a Pension Crisis: A Question of Intelligent System Design,
Alessandro Cigno, from CESifo (2009)
Keywords: pension reform, implicit pension taxes and subsidies, child benefits, fertility, labour productivity

A Theoretical Analysis of the Effects of Legislation on Marriage, Fertility, Domestic Division of Labour, and the Education of Children,
Alessandro Cigno, from CESifo (2007)
Keywords: gender, education, labour participation, fertility, civil partnership, marriage, divorce, alimony, dowry, bride-price, school-leaving age

Is there a Social Security Tax Wedge?,
Alessandro Cigno, from CESifo (2006)
Keywords: tax wedge, labour, public pensions, Bismarck, Beveridge, implicit pension tax

Is Marriage as Good as a Contract?,
Alessandro Cigno, from CESifo (2013)
Keywords: contracts, hold-up problem, separate-property marriage, community-property marriage, divorce legislation

A Strictly Economic Explanation of Gender Roles: The Lasting Legacy of the Plough,
Alessandro Cigno, from CESifo (2020)
Keywords: plough, comparative advantage, gender, matching, hold-up problem, contract enforcement, migration

Can a Ban on Child Labour Be Self-Enforcing, and Would It Be Efficient?,
Alessandro Cigno, from CESifo (2024)
Keywords: child labour, education, fertility, credit, taxes, subsidies, uncertainty, asymmetric information

Rules, Preferences and Evolution from the Family Angle,
Alessandro Cigno, from CESifo (2021)
Keywords: evolution, preferences, family rules, social norms, socialization, matching, hold-up problem

The economics of marriage,
Alessandro Cigno, from CHILD - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics - ITALY (2011)
Keywords: divorce, alimony, matrimonial property, commitment, fertility, domestic division of labour

Is there a social security tax wedge?,
Alessandro Cigno, from CHILD - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics - ITALY (2006)
Keywords: tax wedge, Bismarck, Beveridge, public pensions, implicit pension tax, labour

How to avoid a pension crisis: A question of intelligent system design,
Alessandro Cigno, from CHILD - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics - ITALY (2009)
Keywords: Pension reform, implicit pension taxes and subsidies, child benefits, fertility, labour productivity.

The Political Economy of Intergenerational Cooperation,
Alessandro Cigno, from CHILD - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics - ITALY (2003)
Keywords: Intergenerational Cooperation, Political Economy, Family, Pensions

Whatever happened to the domestic division of labour? A theoretical analysis of the effects of legislation on marriage, fertility and participation,
Alessandro Cigno, from CHILD - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics - ITALY (2008)
Keywords: gender, fertility, domestic division of labour, civil partnership, marriage, divorce, alimony, community property, dowry, bride-price, domestic violence, labour market discrimination, skill premium.

A constitutional theory of the family,
Alessandro Cigno, from CHILD - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics - ITALY (2005)
Keywords: families, self-enforcing constitutions, renegotiation-proofness, altruism, fertility, saving, transfers, attention, pensions, credit rationing

Agency in family policy: a survey,
Alessandro Cigno, from CHILD - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics - ITALY (2009)
Keywords: optimal taxation, optimal family allowances, hidden ability to raise children, hidden educational investments, endogenous and exogenous fertility

A gender-neutral approach to gender issues,
Alessandro Cigno, from CHILD - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics - ITALY (2006)
Keywords: domestic division of labour, child care, bargaining with endogenous threat point, non cooperation, dowries, education, irreversibility

The Supply of Child Labour,
Alessandro Cigno, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2004)
Keywords: insurance, child labour, bonded labour, education, health, credit, poverty

A Constitutional Theory of the Family,
Alessandro Cigno, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2005)
Keywords: saving, fertility, altruism, renegotiation-proofness, self-enforcing constitutions, families, transfers, attention, pensions, credit rationing

Is There a Social Security Tax Wedge?,
Alessandro Cigno, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2006)
Keywords: public pensions, Beveridge, Bismarck, tax wedge, implicit pension tax, labour

Rules, Preferences and Evolution from the Family Angle,
Alessandro Cigno, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2021)
Keywords: matching, socialization, rules, preferences, evolution, hold-up problem

Can a Ban on Child Labour Be Self-Enforcing?,
Alessandro Cigno, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2023)
Keywords: child labour ban, elasticity of labour demand

What's the Use of Marriage?,
Alessandro Cigno, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2009)
Keywords: fertility, matrimonial property, alimony, divorce, marriage, cohabitation, gender, division of labour

How to Deal with Covert Child Labour, and Give Children an Effective Education, in a Poor Developing Country,
Alessandro Cigno, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2011)
Keywords: optimal taxation, moral hazard, uncertainty, education, child labour

A Strictly Economic Explanation of Gender Norms: The Lasting Legacy of the Plough,
Alessandro Cigno, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2020)
Keywords: hold-up problem, comparative advantage, migration, matching, plough, social norm

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Student loans and the allocation of graduate jobs,
Alessandro Cigno and Annalisa Luporini, from Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) - CCA (2013)
Keywords: higher education, matching tournaments, credit JEL codes: C78, D82, I22, J24

Student loans and the allocation of graduate jobs,
Alessandro Cigno and Annalisa Luporini, in Canadian Journal of Economics (2019)

Rise and fall of the Japanese saving rate: The role of social security and intra-family transfers,
Alessandro Cigno and Furio Rosati, in Japan and the World Economy (1997)

On the evolution of individual preferences and family rules,
Alessandro Cigno and Annalisa Luporini, from Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (2018)
Keywords: Marriage, evolution, family rules, immigration, welfare policy

Student Loans and the Allocation of Graduate Jobs,
Alessandro Cigno and Annalisa Luporini, from Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (2013)
Keywords: higher education, matching tournaments, credit

Student loans and the allocation of graduate jobs,
Alessandro Cigno and Annalisa Luporini, in Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique (2019)

Scholarships or Student Loans? Subsidizing Higher Education in the Presence of Moral Hazard,
Alessandro Cigno and Annalisa Luporini, in Journal of Public Economic Theory (2009)

Mutual Interest, Self-enforcing Constitutions and Apparent Generosity,
Alessandro Cigno and Furio Rosati, from Palgrave Macmillan (2000)

Endogenous Child Mortality, the Price of Child-specific Goods and Fertility Decisions: Evidence from Argentina,
Alessandro Cigno and Graciela Pinal, from Palgrave Macmillan (2004)
Keywords: Infant Mortality, Child Mortality, Marginal Utility, Public Expenditure, Private Action

Optimal Family Policy in the Presence of Moral Hazard when the Quantity and Quality of Children are Stochastic,
Alessandro Cigno and Annalisa Luporini, in CESifo Economic Studies (2011)

Taxing family size and subsidizing child-specific commodities?,
Alessandro Cigno and Anna Pettini, in Journal of Public Economics (2002)

Traitement fiscal optimal des familles quand la fécondité est endogène,
Alessandro Cigno and Anna Pettini, in L'Actualité Economique (1999)

A microeconomic analysis of the timing of births,
Alessandro Cigno and John Ermisch, in European Economic Review (1989)

Jointly determined saving and fertility behaviour: Theory, and estimates for Germany, Italy, UK and USA,
Alessandro Cigno and Furio Rosati, in European Economic Review (1996)

The Effects of Financial Markets and Social Security on Saving and Fertility Behaviour in Italy,
Alessandro Cigno and Furio Rosati, in Journal of Population Economics (1992)

A Sequential Probability Model of Fertility Patterns,
Tim Barmby and Alessandro Cigno, in Journal of Population Economics (1990)

The Economics of Child Labour,
Alessandro Cigno and Furio Rosati, from Oxford University Press (2005)

Children and Pensions,
Alessandro Cigno and Martin Werding, from The MIT Press (2007)
Keywords: children, pension, benefits, financing

Taxing Family Size and Subsidising Child-specific Commodities? Optimal Fiscal Treatment of Households with Endogenous Fertility,
Alessandro Cigno and Anna Pettini, from CESifo (1999)
Keywords: Endogenous fertility, optimal indirect taxation, child-specific commodities, child, benefits

Scholarships or Student Loans? Subsidizing Higher Education in the Presence of Moral Hazard,
Alessandro Cigno and Annalisa Luporini, from CESifo (2003)
Keywords: scholarships, student loans, graduate tax, principal-agent, moral hazard

Optimal Policy Towards Families with Different Amounts of Social Capital, in the Presence of Asymmetric Information and Stochastic Fertility,
Alessandro Cigno and Annalisa Luporini, from CESifo (2006)
Keywords: education, stochastic fertility, child benefits, pensions, scholarships, social capital, asymmetric information, multi-agency

Student Loans and the Allocation of Graduate Jobs,
Alessandro Cigno and Annalisa Luporini, from CESifo (2015)
Keywords: higher education, matching tournaments, credit rationing, separating equilibria

Why do Indian Children Work, and is it Bad for Them?,
Alessandro Cigno and Furio Rosati, from eSocialSciences (2007)
Keywords: schooling, Nutritional status, welfare, India, gender, child labour, education, fertility, anthropometry, household economics, rural, mortality, endogenous, school, public health, labour participation, health, educational policies

Optimal Policy Towards Families with Di¤erent Amounts of Social Capital, in the Presence of Asymmetric Information and Stochastic Fertility,
Alessandro Cigno and Annalisa Luporini, from CHILD - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics - ITALY (2006)
Keywords: education, stochastic fertility, child benefits, pensions, scholarships, social capital, asymmetric information, multi-agency

Optimal family policy in the presence of moral hazard, when the quantity and quality of children are stochastic,
Alessandro Cigno and Annalisa Luporini, from CHILD - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics - ITALY (2009)
Keywords: stochastic quantity and quality of children, moral hazard, population externalities, family allowances, scholarships, pensions

Why do Indian Children Work, and is it Bad for Them?,
Alessandro Cigno and Furio Rosati, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2000)
Keywords: Child labour education, fertility, anthropometry, household economics

Student loans and the allocation of graduate jobs,
Alessandro Cigno and Annalisa Luporini, from Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa (2013)
Keywords: higher education, matching tournaments, credit.

Optimal Family Policy in the Presence of Moral Hazard, When the Quantity and Quality of Children Are Stochastic,
Alessandro Cigno and Annalisa Luporini, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2009)
Keywords: scholarships, stochastic quantity and quality of children, population externalities, moral hazard, pensions, family allowances

Endogenous Fertility and the Design of Family Taxation,
Alessandro Balestrino, Alessandro Cigno and Anna Pettini, in International Tax and Public Finance (2002)
Keywords: optimal direct and indirect taxation, endogenous fertility, comparative advantage, self-selection, child benefits,

Evolution of individual preferences and persistence of family rules,
Alessandro Cigno, Alessandro Gioffré and Annalisa Luporini, in Review of Economics of the Household (2021)
Keywords: Family rule, Care of the elderly, Matching, Evolution, Migration

Doing Wonders with an Egg: Optimal Re‐distribution When Households Differ in Market and Non‐Market Abilities,
Alessandro Balestrino, Alessandro Cigno and Anna Pettini, in Journal of Public Economic Theory (2003)

On the evolution of individual preferences and family rules,
Alessandro Cigno, Alessandro Gioffré and Annalisa Luporini, from Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) - CCA (2019)
Keywords: Marriage, evolution, random matching, family rule, immigration

Direct and Indirect Taxation when Households Differ in Market and Non-market Abilities,
Alessandro Balestrino, Alessandro Cigno and Anna Pettini, from CESifo (1999)