variation in religious concentration to identify the effect of people's gambling behavior in financial market settings. We argue … that religious background predicts people's gambling propensity, and that gambling propensity carries over into their …-stock return premium. Collectively, our findings indicate that religious beliefs regarding the acceptability of gambling impact …

relationship between individuals’ gambling choices and their choices regarding fast-food consumption, junk-food consumption … significant and revealing relationship between gambling choices and choices relating to one's health that can lead one to conclude …

This paper helps address a deficiency of gender specific research into gambling. Using predominantly non … randomly from six large Sydney clubs. The results support female gambling stereotypes of lower individual bets and lower … overall expenditure, but not of lower participation and frequency of play, and shorter duration of gambling sessions. Further …

. Australia represents such a natural experiment. In Australia, Betting and Gaming legislation is determined at the state level …

This analysis reviews whether the logical extension of the socio-economic costs caused by pathological gambling should … include a negative socio-economic (i.e., "crime") multiplier in gambling cost/benefit analyses. ... B. Legalized Gambling as … postulated that the multiplier effect was less when those same consumer dollars were spent in decriminalized gambling activities …

The Gambling Industry and Taxation by Terrorism ... Another concern was the target marketing to children via children …'s themes on video gambling machines leading to charges that the gambling industry had transformed the problem of Joe Camel into … "Joe Casino. ... The annual U.S. bankruptcy costs due to legalized gambling were at least $ 3 billion with 105,000 new …