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ABSTRACT: Supplementary information
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00148-021-00857-y.
SUBMITTER: Cerqua A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8214048 | biostudies-literature | 2021
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cerqua Augusto A Di Stefano Roberta R Letta Marco M Miccoli Sara S
Journal of population economics 20210619 4
Estimates of the real death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic have proven to be problematic in many countries, Italy being no exception. Mortality estimates at the local level are even more uncertain as they require stringent conditions, such as granularity and accuracy of the data at hand, which are rarely met. The "official" approach adopted by public institutions to estimate the "excess mortality" during the pandemic draws on a comparison between observed all-cause mortality data for 2020 and ave ...[more]