CESifo Research Network Fellow

Alessandro Cigno

Università di Firenze
Department of Economics and Management
Via delle Pandette D6-256, 50127, Firenze, Italy

Affiliated Research Network Area

Public Economics

Fields of Interest

  • Household Economics
  • Fiscal Treatment of Families

CESifo Working Papers

Can a Ban on Child Labour Be Self-Enforcing, and Would It Be Efficient?

Alessandro Cigno
CESifo, Munich, 2024
CESifo Working Paper No. 11020

Rules, Preferences and Evolution from the Family Angle

Alessandro Cigno
CESifo, Munich, 2021
CESifo Working Paper No. 9226

A Strictly Economic Explanation of Gender Roles: The Lasting Legacy of the Plough.

Alessandro Cigno
CESifo, Munich, 2020
CESifo Working Paper No. 8668

Evolution of Individual Preferences and Persistence of Family Rules

Alessandro Cigno, Alessandro Gioffré, Annalisa Luporini
CESifo, Munich, 2020
CESifo Working Paper No. 8576

The Role of Trade and Offshoring in the Determination of Relative Wages and Child Labour

Alessandro Cigno, Giorgia Giovannetti, Laura Sabani
CESifo, Munich, 2017
CESifo Working Paper No. 6549

Self-Enforcing Family Rules, Marriage and the (Non)Neutrality of Public Intervention

Alessandro Cigno, Mizuki Komura, Annalisa Luporini
CESifo, Munich, 2016
CESifo Working Paper No. 5948

Student Loans and the Allocation of Graduate Jobs

Alessandro Cigno, Annalisa Luporini
CESifo, Munich, 2015
CESifo Working Paper No. 5230

Is Marriage as Good as a Contract?

Alessandro Cigno
CESifo, Munich, 2013
CESifo Working Paper No. 4555

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
CESifo, Munich, 2010
CESifo Working Paper No. 3077

Agency in Family Policy: A Survey

Alessandro Cigno
CESifo, Munich, 2009
CESifo Working Paper No. 2664

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

Alessandro Cigno
CESifo, Munich, 2009
CESifo Working Paper No. 2590

A Theoretical Analysis of the Effects of Legislation on Marriage, Fertility, Domestic Division of Labour, and the Education of Children

Alessandro Cigno
CESifo, Munich, 2007
CESifo Working Paper No. 2143

Is there a Social Security Tax Wedge?

Alessandro Cigno
CESifo, Munich, 2006
CESifo Working Paper No. 1772

Optimal Policy Towards Families with Different Amounts of Social Capital, in the Presence of Asymmetric Information and Stochastic Fertility

Alessandro Cigno, Annalisa Luporini
CESifo, Munich, 2006
CESifo Working Paper No. 1664

The Political Economy of Intergenerational Cooperation

Alessandro Cigno
CESifo, Munich, 2005
CESifo Working Paper No. 1632

Scholarships or Student Loans? Subsidizing Higher Education in the Presence of Moral Hazard

Alessandro Cigno, Annalisa Luporini
CESifo, Munich, 2003
CESifo Working Paper No. 973

The Role of Social Security in Household Decisions: Var Estimates of Saving and Fertility Behaviour in Germany

Alessandro Cigno, Luca Casolaro, Furio C. Rosati
CESifo, Munich, 2000
CESifo Working Paper No. 394

Transfers to Families with Children as a Principal-Agent Problem

Alessandro Cigno, Annalisa Luporini, Anna Pettini
CESifo, Munich, 2000
CESifo Working Paper No. 351

Taxing Family Size and Subsidising Child-specific Commodities? Optimal Fiscal Treatment of Households with Endogenous Fertility

Alessandro Cigno, Anna Pettini
CESifo, Munich, 1999
CESifo Working Paper No. 198

Direct and Indirect Taxation when Households Differ in Market and Non-market Abilities

Alessandro Balestrino, Alessandro Cigno, Anna Pettini
CESifo, Munich, 1999
CES Working Paper No. 181