title: Essays on Applied Public Economics
abstract: This thesis consists of three empirical papers on various topics, which are brought together under a broad umbrella of Applied Public Economics. The first paper uncovers causal links between cocaine seizures and cocaine-related hospital admissions in Italian provinces by resorting to instrumental variables approach. and explores spatial interrelations between the variables of interest via the SLX model. According to the results, ignoring endogeneity leads to underestimating the effect of seizure
journal: AMS Dottorato Institutional Doctoral Theses Repository (University of Bologna)