analysed the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic by focusing on mortality rate outcomes and exploited the heterogeneity of the … healthcare organisational models among Italian regions, which makes Italy an ideal "laboratory". Within a common national … difference in geographic regression discontinuity design (DiD-GRDD) to compare mortality rates in 2020 of Lombardy …

of ambient PM on excess mortality in Northern Italy. … mortality have a similar spatial distribution. Preliminary evidence confirms the hypothesis and suggests a positive association …