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Cigno, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

not, but contrast sharply with the predictions of more conventional models. …

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How to avoid a pension crisis: A question of intelligent system design.

Cigno, Alessandro - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 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...

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A constitutional theory of the family

Cigno, Alessandro - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2005

contrast sharply with the predictions of more conventional models. …

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Intergenerational Transfers and the Demonstration Effect

Cox, Donald; Stark, Oded - Department of Economics, Boston College - 1996

How can parents secure old-age support in the form of care, attention or financial transfers from their children? We explore the enforcement of implicit intergenerational agreements from a fresh angle by studying the possibility that the child's conduct is conditioned by the parents' example....

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How to Avoid a Pension Crisis: A Question of Intelligent System Design

Cigno, Alessandro - CESifo - 2009

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Fertility and pension systems

Rizzo, Giuseppe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

significantly increasing. A broad literature has studied this phenomenon, developing models that explain why pension systems exist … children as old-age economic security, discouraging fertility. In particular, this fact may explain the contemporaneity of the … political economy research these effects have been ignored, as the fertility choice is usually considered exogenous. This paper …

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Retirement, Intergenerational Time Transfers, and Fertility

Eibich, Peter; Siedler, Thomas - 2020

children's fertility. We use representative panel data from Germany to link observations on parents and adult children. We … retirement affects only the timing of adult children's fertility, without having an effect on total fertility. …

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Retirement, intergenerational time transfers, and fertility

Eibich, Peter; Siedler, Thomas - 2020

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Understanding teenage fertility, cohabitation, and marriage : the case of Peru

Favara, Marta; Lavado, Pablo; Sanchez, Alan - 2016

In this study, we used data from the Young Lives study, which investigates teenage childbearing, marriage, and cohabitation by tracking a cohort of individuals from the ages of 8 to 19 years. While the present analysis does not intend to establish causality, the longitudinal nature of the data...

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Human resources in China : the birth quota, returns to schooling, and migration

Schultz, T. Paul - 2003

Rural elderly have 40% of the income of those in urban areas, spend a larger share of their income on food, are in worse health, work later into their lives, and depend more on their children, lacking pensions and public services. The birth quota since 1980 has particularly restricted the...

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