Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 73
Cover Image
Public pensions with endogenous fertility : comment on Nishimura and Zhang
Cigno, Alessandro - In: Journal of public economics 57 (1995) 1, pp. 169-173
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001184679
Cover Image
Children and pensions
Cigno, Alessandro - In: Journal of population economics 5 (1992) 3, pp. 175-183
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001130907
Cover Image
A constitutional theory of the family
Cigno, Alessandro - In: Journal of population economics 19 (2006) 2, pp. 259-283
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003341946
Cover Image
Children and pensions
Cigno, Alessandro; Werding, Martin - 2007
fertility behavior and productivity growth. They present theoretical arguments to the effect that public pension coverage as … such will reduce aggregate fertility and may raise aggregate household savings. They argue further that public pensions, as … the policies under discussion. Their policy proposals to address declines in fertility and productivity growth include the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003408061
Cover Image
Go forth and multiply: Europe's childless societies : low fertility in Europe: is the pension system the victim or the culprit? ; Europe and the demographic challenge (Panel 3)
Cigno, Alessandro - In: CESifo forum : a bi-monthly journal on European … 8 (2007) 3, pp. 37-42
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003549221
Cover Image
A constitutional theory of the family
Cigno, Alessandro (contributor) - 2005
; renegotiation-proofness ; altruism ; fertility ; saving ; transfers ; attention ; pensions ; credit rationing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003260821
Cover Image
Children and pensions
Cigno, Alessandro - 2007
An analysis of the effect of public pension schemes on a country's fertility rate and a proposal for policies to reform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012673695
Cover Image
How to avoid a pension crisis : a question of intelligent system design
Cigno, Alessandro - 2009
Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole. The paper outlines a second-best policy which includes a public pension system made up of two parallel schemes, a Bismarckian one allowing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003936144
Cover Image
Chapter 25 The political economy of intergenerational cooperation
Cigno, Alessandro - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1505-1558). 2006
This chapter examines the scope for mutually beneficial intergenerational cooperation, and looks at various attempts to theoretically explain the emergence of norms and institutions that facilitate this cooperation. The contributions reviewed come from branches of economics as far apart as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023653
Cover Image
Can a ban on child labour be self-enforcing, and would it be efficient?
Cigno, Alessandro - 2024
Basu and Van (1998) show that a ban on child labour may be self-enforcing under the extreme assumption that, above the subsistence level, no amount of consumption can compensate parents for the disutility of child labour. We show that a partial ban may be self-enforcing also in a more general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014505309