Economics of the Family

<p>This up-to-date study on the economics of the family addresses such topical issues as why the birth rate tends to fall as the standard of living rises, why people are marrying less and divorcing more, and why Western populations are getting older. Cigno provides a survey of the most recent literature, and presents its main theoretical results--while offering some new ones--within a simple, unified framework. The book maintains a balance between vigorous theory, intuitive explanation, and discussion of practical implications throughout.</p>

Business & Money

Cigno, Alessandro

Economics

Oxford University Press

This up-to-date study gives a systematic exposition of the way economists address such topical issues as why the birth rate tends to fall as the standard of living rises, why people are marrying less and divorcing more, and what the effects are of the aging of western populations. Alessandro Cigno provides a survey of the most recent literature and presents its main theoretical results--while offering some new ones--within a simple, coherent framework. Lucid and unified, the book maintains a balance between vigorous theory, intuitive explanation, and discussion of practical implications.

The Economics of Child Labour: Education, Fertility, and Infant Mortality in Developing Countries

Rosati, Furio C.

In this book Cigno and Rosati develop a theoretical framework within which to analyze decisions about child labour, drawing on empirical studies and making policy recommendations. They address such issues as parental decisions, gender, education, health, fertility and infant mortality, and children living alone; provide studies of child labour in India, Vietnam, and Morocco; and discuss policies on compulsion and prohibition, redistribution, education, health, and the labor market.

The Economics of Child Labour

Rosati, Furio Camillo

<p>The rapidly aging populations of many developed countries--most notably Japan and member countries of the European Union--present obvious problems for the public pension plans of these countries. Not only will there be disproportionately fewer workers making pension contributions than there are retirees drawing pension benefits, but the youth-to-age imbalance would significantly affect the total contributive capacity of future generations and hence their total income growth. In Children and Pensions, Alessandro Cigno and Martin Werding examine the way pension policy and child-related benefits affect fertility behavior and productivity growth. They present theoretical arguments to the effect that public pension coverage as such will reduce aggregate fertility and may raise aggregate household savings. They argue further that public pensions, as they are currently designed, discourage parents from private human capital investment in their children to improve the children's future earning capacity. After an overview of pension and child benefit policies (focusing on the European Union, Japan, and the United States), the authors offer an empirical and theoretical analysis and a simulation of the effects of the policies under discussion. Their policy proposals to address declines in fertility and productivity growth include the innovative suggestion that relates a person's pension entitlements to his or her number of children and the children's earning ability--proposing that, in effect, a person's pension could be financed in part or in full by the pensioner's own children.</p>

Children and Pensions (Cesifo Book Series)

Werding, Martin

Mit Pr

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Economics of the Family

Economics of the Family

The Economics of Child Labour: Education, Fertility, and Infant Mortality in Developing Countries

The Economics of Child Labour

Children and Pensions (Cesifo Book Series)