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How Do Markets Function? An Empirical Analysis of Gambling on the National Football League

Levitt, Steven D. - 2003

The market for sports gambling is structured very differently than the typical financial market. In sports betting …

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Jackpot for Good : Can Lottery Matches Increase Charitable Giving?

Ahles, Amelia; Lahey, Joanna; Palma, Marco A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

This study investigates the effectiveness of donation matching gift schemes using lotteries for increasing charitable giving relative to deterministic matches of equivalent or higher expected value and a no-match control. We recruit 1,402 online participants and randomly assign them to one of...

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Research Design Meets Market Design : Using Centralized Assignment for Impact Evaluation

Abdulkadiroglu, Atila - 2015

A growing number of school districts use centralized assignment mechanisms to allocate school seats in a manner that reflects student preferences and school priorities. Many of these assignment schemes use lotteries to ration seats when schools are oversubscribed. The resulting random assignment...

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Do Lottery Payments Induce Savings Behavior : Evidence from the Lab

Filiz-Ozbay, Emel - 2013

This paper presents the results of a laboratory experiment designed to investigate whether the option of a Prize Linked … men, self-reported lottery players, and subjects with low bank account balances. We use the results of our experiment to …

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Explaining the Favorite-Longshot Bias : Is it Risk-Love or Misperceptions?

Snowberg, Erik - 2010

The favorite-longshot bias describes the longstanding empirical regularity that betting odds provide biased estimates of the probability of a horse winning--longshots are overbet, while favorites are underbet. Neoclassical explanations of this phenomenon focus on rational gamblers who overbet...

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Is Lottery Gambling Addictive?

Guryan, Jonathan - 2009

We present an empirical test for the addictiveness of lottery gambling. To distinguish state dependence from serial … correlation, we exploit an exogenous shock to local market consumption of lottery gambling. We use the sale of a winning ticket in … addictiveness in lottery gambling. They also highlight the potential effectiveness of innovations and advertising campaigns designed …

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Cognitive Imprecision and Small-Stakes Risk Aversion

Khaw, Mel Win - 2018

observe in a laboratory experiment …

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The Effect of School Choice on Student Outcomes : Evidence from Randomized Lotteries

Cullen, Julie Berry - 2003

School choice has become an increasingly prominent strategy for urban school districts seeking to enhance academic achievement. Evaluating the impact of such programs is complicated by the fact that a highly select sample of students takes advantage of these programs. To overcome this...

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Limits on Regret as a Tool for Incentive Design

Araújo, Felipe Augusto de; Imas, Alex; Wilson, Alistair J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

. We focus on regret theory and the use of "regret lotteries" for motivating behavior change. Here, findings from one …

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Place Based Economic Development and Tribal Casinos

Akee, Randall; Jones, Maggie R.; Simeonova, Emilia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Tribal lands in the U.S. have historically experienced some of the worst economic conditions in the nation. We review some existing research on the effect of American Indian tribal casinos on various measures of local economic development. This is an industry that began in the early 1990s and...

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