This article investigates the role of education on environmental crime in Italy using a panel 110 Italian provinces over period 2010–2015. We employ system-GMM (Generalized Method Moments) dynamic data approach to tackle endogeneity that might arise estimations from path and consider time-invariant effects provinces. Our empirical results, even after controlling for socioeconomic judicial effic...

Quite often shadow economy (SE) and corruption are seen as "twins", which need each other or fight against each other and theoretically can be either complements or substitutes. Therefore, the relationship between SE and corruption has been a controversial and polemical issue and in the spotlight of a remarkable collection of economists and social researchers. The main objective of this study ...