Ricerc@Sapienza

The ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 is having a dramatic effect on most medical disciplines. Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery is one of the most engaged disciplines, and otolaryngology specialists are facing a radical change of their role and daily activities that will have severe impact on the return to the ordinary.

The shape of the Environmental Kuznets Curve, which relates the trade-offs between environmental goods and production changes to income, has been the focus of much study in the literature. A similar kind of relationship may or may not exist between environmental crime and income, but this has not yet been empirically investigated. Using a unique panel dataset spanning 110 Italian provinces from 2010 to 2015, we empirically investigate the shape of an Environmental Crime Kuznets Curve while controlling for demographic, judicial, and socio-economic heterogeneity.