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The political economy of intergenerational cooperation
Cigno, Alessandro - 2005
The paper 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. After establishing a normative framework, we examine the properties of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261395
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Optimal policy towards families with different amounts of social capital, in the presence of asymmetric information and stochastic fertility
Cigno, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa - 2006
We examine the effects of differences in social capital on first and second best transfers to families with children, in an asymmetric information context where the number of births, and the future earning capacity of each child that is born, are random variables. The probability that a couple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261415
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A theoretical analysis of the effects of legislation on marriage, fertility, domestic division of labour, and the education of children
Cigno, Alessandro - 2007
Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two …, and (iv) length and effective enforcement of compulsory education. The predictions are consistent with two empirical … countries tend to get less education than boys of the same educational ability, and of why a substantial minority of women in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264246
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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
Cigno, Alessandro - 2010
work a child does, are private information, the second-best policy uses a combination of need and merit based education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270527
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The Role of Trade and Offshoring in the Determination of Relative Wages and Child Labour
Cigno, Alessandro; Giovannetti, Giorgia; Sabani, Laura - 2017
Incorporating family decisions in a two-period.model of the world economy, we predict that trade liberalization raises the skill premium and reduces child labour in developing countries where the adult labour force is sufficiently well educated to attract production activities from abroad that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698716
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Can a Ban on Child Labour Be Self-Enforcing, and Would It Be Efficient?
Cigno, Alessandro - 2024
may be self-enforcing also in a more general model where education is an alternative to work, and the disutility of child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534362