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Alessandro Cigno si è laureato in Economia e commercio all’Università di Catania, si è specializzato in Economia dello sviluppo presso il Centro di specializzazione per il Mezzogiorno 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. E’ stato presidente di ESPE (European Society of Population Economics) e CHILD (Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics), consulente di Cooperazione Italiana, Commissione Europea, UNICEF e Banca Mondiale. Per molti anni é stato anche un editor del Journal of Population Economics.
Alessandro Cigno si è laureato in Economia all’Università di Catania, si è 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. E’ stato presidente di ESPE (European Society for Population Economics) e CHILD (Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics), consulente di Cooperazione Italiana, Commissione Europea, UNICEF e Banca Mondiale. E' 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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Alessandro Cigno is a Professor of Economics at the University of Florence, a Senior Fellow of RCER, and a Research Fellow of CESifo, CHILD, IZA and GLO. He is also a former editor of the Journal of Population Economics, and a past President of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE).
Professor Cigno graduated in Economics at the University of Catania, and gained his Ph.D. in Mathematical Economics from the University of Birmingham. Before joining the University of Florence, he held permanent or visiting appointments at several universities in Europe, the USA and Latin America including, as a full professor, Pisa, Hull and Wisconsin (Madison). He has been a consultant of the British Council, Cooperazione Italiana, the European Commission, the World Bank, and UNICEF.
Alessandro Cigno is a Professor of Economics at the University of Florence, a Research Fellow of CESifo (Munich), CHILD (Turin) and IZA (Bonn), and an editor of the Journal of Population Economics. He is also a former President of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE).
His early research was concerned with the dynamic modelling of production and investment processes. Over the last four decades, however, his research has concentrated on population economics, the economics of the family, child labour, intergenerational transfers, and optimal policy design. His publications include six books and numerous articles in scholarly journals such as the Economic Journal, the European Economic Review, the European Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Population Economics, the Journal of Public Economics, the Review of Economic Studies, the World Bank Economic Review, and World Development. One of his books, The Economics of Child Labour, co-authored by Furio Rosati and published by Oxford University Press, was selected by Cornell University Library as “Noteworthy Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics”.
