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Using spatial distribution of outlets to estimate gambling incidence

Dahan, Momi - 2017

The paper proposes a simple and innovative methodology for measuring the incidence of gambling expenditure in countries … merging data on the geographical location of gambling outlets, together with residents' socio-economic and demographic … results and yields a measure of -0.42, which implies that the implicit tax associated with gambling is highly regressive. …

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Poverty and economic behavior : gambling at social security paydays

Dahan, Momi - 2019 - This version: 15/7/2019

outlets in Israel for two years (2015-2016), I find that gambling revenue spikes at social security paydays. The estimation …

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Skewness preferences : evidence from online poker

Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Kasinger, Johannes; Schneider, … - 2024

We test for skewness preferences in a large set of observational panel data on online poker games (n=4,450,585). Each observation refers to a choice between a safe option and a binary risk of winning or losing the game. Our setting offers a real-world choice situation with substantial incentives...

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Vaccination lottery

Kim, Duk Gyoo - 2021

Ohio announced a Vax-a-Million Lottery in May 2021 to encourage people vaccinated. If people may avoid vaccination because (1) they worry about rare but critical side effects or (2) they want to free ride on herd immunity, the vaccination lottery may work better or worse than a lump-sum transfer...

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Overcoming time inconsistency with a matched bet : etheory and evidence from exercising

Woerner, Andrej - 2021

This paper introduces the matched-bet mechanism. The matched bet is an easily applicable and strictly budget-balanced mechanism that aims to help people overcome time-inconsistent behavior. I show theoretically that offering a matched bet helps both sophisticated and naive procrastinators to...

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How residence permits affect the labor market attachment of foreign workers : evidence from a migration lottery in Liechtenstein

Buechel, Berno; Gangl, Selina; Huber, Martin - 2021

We analyze the impact of obtaining a residence permit on foreign workers' labor market and residential attachment. To overcome the usually severe selection issues, we exploit a unique migration lottery that randomly assigns access to residence permits for workers with an employment contract in...

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Can unearned income make us fitter? : evidence from lottery wins

Costa-Font, Joan; Gyori, Mario - 2020

Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting...

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Parental resources and college attendance : evidence from lottery wins

Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W.; Goodman, Sarena; … - 2020

We examine U.S. children whose parents won the lottery to trace out the effect of financial resources on college attendance. The analysis leverages federal tax and financial aid records and substantial variation in win size and timing. While per-dollar effects are modest, the relationship is...

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Betting market efficiency in the presence of unfamiliar shocks : the case of ghost games during the COVID-19 pandemic

Fischer, Kai; Haucap, Justus - 2020

Betting markets have been frequently used as a natural laboratory to test the efficient market hypothesis and to obtain insights especially for financial markets. We add to this literature in analyzing the velocity and accuracy in which market expectations adapt to an exogenous shock: the...

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Advertising as a reminder : evidence from the Dutch State Lottery

He, Chen; Klein, Tobias J. - 2018

We use high frequency data on TV and radio advertising together with data on online sales for lottery tickets to measure the short run effects of advertising. We find them to be strong and to last for up to about 4 hours. They are the bigger the less time there is until the draw. We develop the...

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