Debito pubblico, ricchezza privata e politiche per la famiglia
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Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Florence. President of CHILD (Turin). Fellow of CESifo (Munich) and IZA (Bonn). Editor of the Journal of Population Economics. He has held permanent or visiting positions at several universities in Europe, the USA and Latin America, including, as a full professor, Pisa, Hull and Wisconsin (Madison).
He has also been a consultant for the British Council (on India), Cooperazione Italiana (on Argentina and Guatemala), the European Commission (on pension reform), the World Bank (on child labour and Guatemala), and UNICEF (on clild labour, Morocco and Nepal).
In 1991, he was President of the European Society for Population Economics. His early research was concerned with the dynamic modelling of production and investment processes. Over the last couple of decades, however, his research has concentrated on intergenerational transfers, the microeconomics of fertility, and the optimal fiscal treatment of families.
Alessandro Cigno, laureato in Economia all’Università di Catania, si è poi specializzato in economia dello sviluppo presso il Centro di specializzazione dell’Università di Napoli (Portici) ed ha conseguito il Ph.D. in Mathematical Economics all’Università di Birmingham (UK). Per molti anni ha insegnato in varie università europee e americane fra cui, come professore ordinario, Hull (UK), Wisconsin (Madison, USA), Pisa ed infine Firenze. È stato presidente di ESPE (European Society for Population Economics) e CHILD (Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics), consulente della Banca Mondiale ed è tuttora un editor del Journal of Population Economics. La sua ricerca, pubblicata in riviste scientifiche internazionali di primo piano, verte da molti anni sui rapporti fra generazioni e sul disegno ottimale dell’intervento pubblico in tale ambito. Fra i suoi libri spiccano Economics of the Family (Clarendon Press e Oxford University Press, 1991), The Economics of Child Labour (con F. C. Rosati, Oxford University Press, 2005) e Children and Pensions (con M. Werding, MIT Press, 2007).
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Scientific board: 6 members, 1 research institutions, 1 nations
Authors: 30 authors, 3 editors
Books: 21 monographs, 2 edited books
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