separate lottery agencies to administer and promote the games. One statutory duty of many lottery agencies is to maximize the … as the distaste for the state government's promotion of lottery. Existing literature suggests that the marginal … additional advertising dollar increases lottery sales, we examine quasi-experiments in three states (Illinois, Washington, and …

. Chapter three shifts the interests to the lottery mechanism for rationing public resources. It characterizes the optimal … and welfare equivalency propositions across lottery institutions. Finally, the numerical simulations strongly support the …