Garrett, Thomas A.; Pakko, Michael R. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2009
Smoking was banned in all Illinois casinos in January 2008. We explore the effects that the smoking ban has had on … Illinois casino revenue and attendance. Our empirical methodology extends and enhances that of previous literature in that we … observe a natural experiment in comparing the performance of Illinois casinos with out-of-state casinos (no smoking ban) that …