The Economics of Family Taxation: Optimal Tax Issues from a Household Economics Perspective

Alessandro Balestrino is a full professor of Public Economics at the Department of Political Science, University of Pisa, Italy. He also is a fellow of the Center for Economic Studies (CESifo), Munich, Germany. He acts as a referee for several international journals and has published various articles himself. His research focuses on taxation of the family, optimal taxation, public provision of private goods, non-welfarist theories of poverty and social norms.