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Gambling Habits and Probability Judgements in a Bayesian Task Environment

Dickinson, David L.; Reid, Parker - 2023

information sources. Exploratory analysis, however, revealed interesting effects related to self-reported gambling frequency …-reported gambling frequency was stronger for females. Decision modeling found a decreased weight placed on new evidence (over base rate … frequency of gambling to worse performance in the critical probability assessment skills that should benefit gambling success (i …

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Effects of Lottery Wins on Household Labor Supply

Belloc, Ignacio; Molina, Jose Alberto; Velilla, Jorge - 2023

This paper analyses the impact of current and past lottery wins on household labor supply in the United Kingdom using data from the British Household Panel Survey 1997-2008. Estimating individual fixed-effects models, we show that male annual hours of work do not respond to lottery wins, whilst...

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Career Lotto : Labor Supply in Winner-Take-All Markets

Grove, Wayne A. - 2019

Are people prone to selecting occupations with highly skewed income distributions despite minuscule chances of success? Assembling a comprehensive pool of potential teenage entrants into professional tennis (a typical winner-take-all market), we construct objective measures of relative ability...

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The Long-Term Impacts of International Migration : Evidence from a Lottery

Gibson, John - 2015

We examine the long-term impacts of international migration by comparing immigrants who had successful ballot entries in a migration lottery program, and first moved almost a decade ago, with people who had unsuccessful entries into those same ballots. The long-term gain in income is found to be...

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Labor Supply Effects of Winning a Lottery

Picchio, Matteo - 2015

This paper investigates how winning a substantial lottery prize affects labor supply. Analyzing data from Dutch State Lottery winners, we find that earnings are affected but not employment. Lottery prize winners reduce their hours of work but they are not very likely to withdraw from the labor...

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Brothers in Arms : Spillovers from a Draft Lottery

Bingley, Paul - 2017

Family members tend to have similar labor market outcomes, but measuring the contribution of behavioral spillovers is difficult. To identify spillovers between brothers, we exploit Denmark's largest random assignment – of young men to 8 months of military service – where service status of...

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Do You Have to Win it to Fix it? A Longitudinal Study of Lottery Winners and Their Health Care Demand

Cheng, Terence Chai - 2015

We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individuals' income on health care demand in the United Kingdom. This strategy allows us to estimate lottery income elasticities for a range of health care services that are publicly and privately provided. The results...

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Long-Term Health Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service : A Quasi-Experiment Using Australian Conscription Lotteries

Johnston, David W. - 2015

This paper estimates the long-term health effects of Vietnam-Era military service using Australia's National conscription lotteries for identification. Our primary contribution is the quality and breadth of our health outcomes. We use several administrative sources, containing a near-universe of...

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Race-Blind Admissions, School Segregation, and Student Outcomes : Evidence from Race-Blind Magnet School Lotteries

Cook, Jason - 2018

We know surprisingly little about the influence of race-blind school admissions on student outcomes. This paper studies a unique reform where a large, urban school district was federally mandated to adopt a race-blind lottery system to fill seats in its oversubscribed magnet schools. The...

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The Effect of Fe y Alegria on School Achievement : Exploiting a School Lottery Selection as a Natural Experiment

Lavado, Pablo - 2017

Fe y Alegria is an organization working in many developing countries as a public-private partnership. This study estimates the effect of one Fe y Alegria school in Peru on mathematics and reading comprehension among second grade primary pupils, between 2007 and 2012. The identification strategy...

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