We develop an overlapping generations model to study how the interplay between social and human capital affects fertility. In a framework where families face a trade-off between the quantity and quality of children, we incorporate the assumption that social capital plays a key role in the...

In this paper I present a brief survey on corruption from an economic point of view. Since corruption is a very complex phenomenon, the first part of the work gives an overview of possible definitions of corruption offered by the economic literature. Then, I focus on the major causes which may...