Replication data for: Gambling at Lucky Stores: Empirical Evidence from State Lottery Sales

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Jonathan Guryan; Melissa S. Kearney

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Citation: 

Guryan, Jonathan, and Kearney, Melissa S. Replication data for: Gambling at Lucky Stores: Empirical Evidence from State Lottery Sales: AER replication files. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2008. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113235V1-145482

To view the citation for the overall project, see http://doi.org/10.3886/E113235V1.

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary We show that the week after selling a large-prize Texas Lotto winning ticket, a retailer experiences a 12 to 38 percent relative increase in ticket sales. Some increase persists for up to 40 weeks. We document that the sales response increases with jackpot size and is larger in areas with more economically disadvantaged populations. Sales patterns across games and across retailers are not consistent with most advertising explanations. Furthermore, response patterns are not consistent with representativeness-based explanations for the hot hand or gambler's fallacy; we suggest an alternative explanation for the observed "lucky store" effect. (JEL H27, H71)

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      H27 Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenues: Other Sources of Revenue
      H71 State and Local Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue


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