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The Impact of Legalized Casino Gambling on Crime
Nichols, Mark W. - 2013
We examine the impact of legalized casino gambling, including Indian casinos, on crime. Using county-level data between …
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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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American Indian Casinos and Native American Self-Identification
Antman, Francisca; Duncan, Brian - 2023
This paper links Native American racial self-identification with the rise in tribal gaming across the United States. We find that state policy changes allowing tribes to open casinos are associated with an increase in the probability that individuals with American Indian ancestors will...
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Gambling and the Use of Credit : An Individual and Household Level Analysis
Brown, Sarah - 2010
We explore the relationship between gambling and other forms of risk-taking behaviour, i.e. exposure to debt and the … Expenditure and Food Surveys (EFS), 2001 to 2007. Gambling and the use of credit are shown to be positively correlated at the … household level. While both the incidence and amount of gambling vary according to household income, the positive association …
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Explaining the Favorite-Longshot Bias : Is it Risk-Love or Misperceptions?
Snowberg, Erik C. - 2011
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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Green Cities? Urbanization, Trade and the Environment
Borck, Rainald - 2015
This paper establishes a simple theoretical framework which comprises key forces that shape the structure and interrelation of cities to study the interdependencies between urban evolution and the environment. We focus on the potential of the unfettered market forces to economize on emissions. A...
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An Empirical Study of the Relationships Between CO2 Emissions, Economic Growth and Openness
Choi, Eunho - 2014
This paper investigates the existence of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and its causal relationships with economic growth and openness by using time series data (1971-2006) from China (an emerging market), Korea (a newly industrialized country), and...
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Quantifying the Intangible Impact of the Olympics Using Subjective Well-Being Data
Dolan, Paul - 2019
Hosting the Olympic Games costs billions of taxpayer dollars. Following a quasi-experimental setting, this paper assesses the intangible impact of the London 2012 Olympics, using a novel panel of 26,000 residents in London, Paris, and Berlin during the summers of 2011, 2012, and 2013. We show...
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On the Boundaries of the Shadow Economy : An Empirical Investigation
Manes, Eran - 2016
support to this view. We find that in countries with less stringent job market regulation the long-run impact of Unemployment … faster in countries with looser job-market regulation, compared with countries with stricter regulation. These findings have …
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Corruption and the Shadow Economy : An Empirical Analysis
Dreher, Axel; Schneider, Friedrich - 2021
This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption and shadow economy are substitutes in high income countries while they are complements in low income countries. The hypotheses are tested for a crosssection of 120 countries and a...
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