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 …

. Following this sentence, a state monopoly in future has to maximize players’ protection and prevention of pathological gambling …

who choose to gamble are likely to be larger than for the general population. Using UK data on gambling wins, other … those likely to be credit-onstrained. This is consistent with credit-constrained, risk-averse agents gambling to convexify …

uncertainty. We use county-level data from Texas and Wisconsin to compare our approach to conventional rankings that assign … deterministic factor weights and ignore uncertainty. Greater discrepancies in rankings emerge for Texas than Wisconsin since the … but becomes especially large in Texas after incorporating noise from imputing its considerable missing data. …

. I analyze the timing of bargaining and the causes of delay using a cross-section of insurance claims in Texas over a 20 …

causally generates good health and that this effect is of similar magnitude as when traditional estimation techniques are used …

-entrance in January 2001 this paper develops a rigorous estimation procedure. The estimates provide statistical evidence of … increased central bank intervention activities in the run-up to the Greek EMU entrance. Thus the modelling and estimation …