Lottery
61 studies in the past 365 days. Tags are assigned automatically from titles and abstracts; a study can carry several.
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The Relationship Between Powerball Jackpot Size and Lottery Sales in Texas: Evidence from 2022–2025 Data
In recent years, Powerball jackpots have reached exceptionally high levels, attracting substantial public attention and raising questions about how jackpot size is related to lottery ticket sales. This study examines the relationship between large Powerball jackpots and ticket sales in Texas from 2022 to 2025 …
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Sports Betting, Lotteries, and State Revenues in the Post-PASPA Era
State lotteries are an important source of state revenue in the 45 states that operate them. Following the repeal of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA), 38 states and Washington, DC legalized sports betting …
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Developing a Measure of the Double-Edged Health-Related Consequences of Lottery Participation (DEHC-LP) Among Chinese Lottery Participants and Examining Their Psychological Correlates: The Roles of Lottery Beliefs and Passion
Lottery participation may be associated with both beneficial and detrimental consequences relevant to individuals' health, well-being, and daily functioning, reflecting a double-edged phenomenon. Understanding the psychological factors associated with these divergent consequences is important for promoting responsible lottery participation …
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A Typology of Adolescent Gamblers Using Latent Class Analysis
Adolescent gambling has emerged as a serious social concern, as gambling problems that begin at an early age may extend beyond juvenile delinquency to school maladjustment, secondary offending, and continued involvement in crime during adulthood …
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Financially focused self-concept and problem lottery gambling: the chain mediating role of gambling-related luck beliefs and lottery gambling passion
Background China operates the world’s largest lottery market, yet the psychological mechanisms linking individual dispositions to problem lottery gambling remain insufficiently understood, particularly among mainland Chinese samples. Financially focused self-concept—the tendency to base self-worth on financial success—has been linked to gambling problems …
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Lottery Sales and Household Risky Financial Investment: New Insights From CHFS Survey Data
Using data of 45,602 urban and rural households across 29 provinces from the 2017, 2019, and 2021 China Household Finance Survey (CHFS) and provincial-level lottery sales, this paper examines how lottery sales affect household investment in risky financial assets and explores the underlying mechanisms …
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Liquor, Lotteries, and Livelihoods: Understanding Compulsive Consumption Behaviour and Family Outcomes in Kerala
Kerala, renowned for its high literacy and human development achievements, presents a striking paradox in the persistence of compulsive consumption behaviours, notably in liquor use and lottery participation. This study investigates consumption patterns and their implications for household financial stability, family dynamics, and overall well-being …
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Random Sparse Networks Training With Sharpness-Aware Regularization
Over-parameterization is critical for optimizing neural networks, whereas training sparse networks directly often fails to achieve satisfactory performance …
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Do State Lotteries Exploit their Lottery Power? Optimal Lotto Pricing With Heterogeneous Players: Evidence from the United Kingdom
ABSTRACT We propose a new model of revenue‐maximising lottery pricing under income‐related heterogeneity and apply it to 13 years of UK National Lottery data. Our pricing rule shows how a state's lottery power is shaped by heterogeneities in lotto demand and the income distribution, and we study its efficiency and distributional implications …
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Relationship between upward social comparison and financial gambling motives among Chinese lottery gamblers: the roles of relative deprivation and socioeconomic status
This study examined the association between upward social comparison and financial gambling motives among Chinese lottery gamblers, as well as the mediating role of relative deprivation and the moderating role of socioeconomic status (SES) within this relationship …
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Advertising in Traditional Media and Gambling Behaviours in Young Adults
The proliferation of gambling advertising across various media formats raises urgent concerns about its potential impact on gambling behaviours …
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Тактика збирання доказів стороною захисту у кримінальних провадженнях за ст. 203-2 КК України
The article is devoted to the study of the tactics of evidence collection by the defence in criminal proceedings concerning illegal activities related to the organisation or conduct of gambling and lotteries, as provided for by Article 203-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine …
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Tactics of evidence collection by the defence in criminal proceedings under Article 203-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine
The article is devoted to the study of the tactics of evidence collection by the defence in criminal proceedings concerning illegal activities related to the organisation or conduct of gambling and lotteries, as provided for by Article 203-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine …
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Gambling disorder and problem gambling in Brazil: The development of a brief screening scale
Brief, accurate, and context-sensitive screening tools are essential for detecting gambling-related problems, but most existing instruments are not validated for on-site gambling …
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Online Sports Betting Legalization and the Reallocation of Retail Investor Information Search Toward Lottery-type Stocks
I examine whether the legalization of online sports betting is associated with a reallocation of retail investors' information search across stocks around firm earnings announcements (EAs). Prior work links legalization to a reallocation of household capital, but its association with information search has not been examined …
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LEGAL REGULATION OF DRAW-BASED CLUB LOTTERIES IN KAZAKHSTAN: ANALYSIS OF LEGISLATION
This article examines the legal nature of the “club draw lottery” in the Republic of Kazakhstan. It analyzes the differences between a club draw lottery and a traditional draw lottery …
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Twinkle twinkle little star: Gambling and child recognition of the Irish national lottery logo
Online and physical gambling activity has increased exponentially in the UK, Ireland, and Europe over the last 15 years. In Ireland, the National Lottery logo depicts a friendly, anthropomorphic ‘dancing star’, which is reminiscent of a nursery rhyme character. This research sought to examine children’s recognition of the National Lottery logo …
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OPTIMIZING STATE REVENUE THROUGH REGULATORY REFORM IN VIETNAM’S GAMING AND LOTTERY SECTOR
This article examines the determinants of state budget revenue from the prize-winning gaming sector in Vietnam, which encompasses traditional and computerized lotteries, casinos, sports betting, and electronic games for foreigners …
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OPTIMIZING STATE REVENUE THROUGH REGULATORY REFORM IN VIETNAM’S GAMING AND LOTTERY SECTOR
This article examines the determinants of state budget revenue from the prize-winning gaming sector in Vietnam, which encompasses traditional and computerized lotteries, casinos, sports betting, and electronic games for foreigners …
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More than just “plugging leaks”: the effects of gambling and lottery winnings on Spaniards’ financial and personal decisions
Abstract The paper analyses how winning money from gambling and lotteries in Spain has affected the behaviour of the winners and their partners in a wide range of financial and personal decisions. This is the first study in the literature to apply the differences-in-differences estimator of de Chaisemartin and d’Haultfoeuille (De Chaisemartin, C. and X …
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Using Scratch-Off Lottery Tickets to Teach Binomial Probabilities and Expected Value
This paper demonstrates how to use state lottery scratch-off tickets as an interactive classroom exercise to explain the binomial distribution and expected value. Students often struggle to comprehend how theoretical probability distributions relate to empirical outcomes …
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Exploring rule following on electronic scratch-offs
Online gambling, including lottery and scratch-offs, are popular games across the globe. However, minimal behavior analytic research has focused lottery games. The purpose of the current study was to explore the sequence effects of rules outlining faulty and correct contingencies during electronic scratch-off play …
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DECENTRALIZING THE UNLOCATABLE: NIGERIA’S SUPREME COURT, DIGITAL GAMBLING, and THE LIMITS of TERRITORIAL FEDERALISM
On November 22, 2024, the Supreme Court of Nigeria unanimously struck down the National Lottery Act, holding that lotteries are residual matters exclusively within state competence. The judgment resolves a 16-year dispute and vindicates federalism principles in Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution …
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Before Becoming the “Lottery Capital”: Agricultural Transformation and the Emergence of “Lottery Entrepreneurs” in Wang Saphung District, Loei Province, 1980s–1990s
Background and Objectives: The state lottery is a legalized form of gambling permitted by many governments as it serves as a significant source of national revenue. In Thailand, the lottery generates no less than 50 billion baht annually …
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Child-Oriented Marketing Practices Associated with Ireland’s Televised National Lottery Draws: A Secondary Analysis of Associated Programming and Screening Times
There is sustained evidence of youth National Lottery participation in Ireland. Youth participation in gambling is associated with future problem gambling in adulthood.. Recent evidence suggests that National Lottery marketing materials in Ireland are overly child oriented …
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EFFECT OF PROMOTIONAL STRATEGIES ON LOTTERY PRODUCTS SALES IN NIGERIA
Promotion strategies are critical in influencing consumer behavior and driving sales in various industries, including the lottery sector. Despite its long-standing presence and significant economic contributions, lottery industry faces increasing challenges in sustaining and growing its consumer base …
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Revisiting “The Menace of Competition and Gambling Deregulation”
:This article continues the analysis of gambling deregulation from an institutional economics perspective done in the article “The Menace of Competition and Gambling Deregulation” by Atkinson, Nichols, and Oleson. John R …
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Perbandingan Hukum Undian Berhadiah dengan Praktik Maisir dalam Perspektif Syariah
This study aims to analyze the legal basis for prize draws and gambling (maisir) from a sharia perspective and to clarify the boundaries of permissible and prohibited transactions in Islam. The study employed a qualitative approach with library research …
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Reference dependence and lottery participation
Abstract We assume that lottery participants are poor relative to their target income. Reference dependence with loss aversion can render the marginal utility of income non‐monotonic in line with the Friedman–Savage hypothesis. As a result, lottery participation can be rationalized without invoking probability weighting …
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Początki gdańskich loterii publicznych na cele dobroczynne w XVIII wieku. Organizacja i zasady
The Beginnings of Public Lotteries for Charitable Purposes in Eighteenth-Century Gdańsk:Organisation and RulesThis article examines the origins and early development of public lotteries organised for charitable purposes in Gdańsk (Ger.Danzig) during the first half of the eighteenth century.The topic has not previously been the subject of systematic …
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PERAN LOTRE SEBAGAI SARANA AMAL BAGI ANAK-ANAK PANTI ASUHAN PROTESTAN DI SEMARANG TAHUN 1887-1935
This study explores the financial instability faced by the Protestant Orphanage in Semarang and the need for adaptive funding strategies, which makes the use of lotteries an important subject of inquiry …
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Not Just Bad Luck: Income-Based Gaps in Lottery Losses
This research uncovers a hidden dimension of inequality in lottery play: Lower-income consumers not only spend a larger share of their income on lottery tickets—a well-documented regressive pattern—but also earn less per ticket due to systematic differences in how games are designed and played …
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Effects of Lottery Games on Students' University Education in Arusha Region, Tanzania
This study investigated the effects of lottery games on students' university education in Arusha region.Objectives were to: examine the extent to which lottery games affect university students' education and find out possible measures to minimize the effects of lottery games on University Students' education.Entertainment Utility Theory and convergent …
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Problem gambling among working youth in Southeast Türkiye: predictors and psychological consequences
In low-socioeconomic contexts like South-eastern Türkiye, where child labor rates exceed national averages due to economic pressures, working youth face amplified risks of gambling as a maladaptive coping mechanism …
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Comparative Analysis of SARIMA, Prophet, and a Diagnostic Decomposition-Correction Hybrid for Long-Horizon Lottery Sales Forecasting
Accurate forecasting of lottery sales is crucial for strategic planning in volatile consumer markets driven by trend shifts, multi-scale seasonality, and calendar effects. This study proposes a Diagnostic Decomposition-Correction Hybrid (DDC-Hybrid) framework integrating Prophet and SARIMA through a residual diagnostics and correction pipeline …
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Banking on Paper: Lottery Insurance and the London Art Market, 1694–1826
ABSTRACT: This article provides the first independent examination of lottery insurance in Britain from 1694 to 1826. While state lottery tickets could be purchased from licensed offices, other lottery-related bets known as insurance would be placed with bookkeepers, legal and illegal, operating across London …
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Individual and Neighborhood Risk and Protective Factors of At-Risk and Problem Gambling: a Spatial Analysis Using Geographic Information Systems
This study investigated the relationship between lottery gambling and postal codes where this gambling occurs, along with individual-level characteristics predicting at-risk or problem gambling (ARPG) among Massachusetts residents …
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The impact of improper promotion of sports lottery on the harm of purchasing sports lottery: an intermediary in a regulatory chain
To explore the relationship between the improper promotion of lottery games and the harm caused by lottery players' purchase of lottery tickets, as well as the chain mediating role of the compulsive tendency of lottery purchase addiction, bad lottery purchase behaviors, and responsible lottery purchase beliefs …
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Regulation of lottery revenue distribution in the lottery legislation system: Analysis of international experience
Aim. This work aimed to substantiate approaches to examining international experience in distributing revenue from organizing and conducting state lotteries as an appropriate basis for identifying the most effective models for regulating lottery activities. Objectives …
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Legal Analysis of the Criminal Act of Online Togel Gambling in Dirokan Hilir (Study of Decision No. 296/PID.B/2024/PN-RHL)
The development of digital technology has led to an increase in online gambling practices in Indonesia. This article discusses a legal analysis of online gambling crimes based on Decision Number 296/Pid.B/2024/PN Rokan Hilir, in which the defendant Marihot Sitinjak was charged and sentenced for his actions as an online lottery bookie …
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Youth Oriented Advertising in Ireland’s National Lottery: A Quantitative Content Analysis of Advertisements
Gambling on the National Lottery in Ireland peaked recently at an annual gross spend of over €1 billion. There is ample evidence of underage participation in the lotto. Youth participation in gambling is associated with problematic gambling in adulthood …
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Using Machine-Learning Algorithms to Predict Self-Reported Problem Gambling Among a Sample of Online Gamblers
Abstract Studies suggest that algorithms can effectively be used to predict self-reported problem gambling using player tracking data. The present study analyzed a sample of real-world online gamblers ( N = 1,611) who engaged in lottery playing, casino gambling, bingo playing, and sports betting …
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The State and Religion in Indonesia: The Indonesian Ulama Council’s Authority on Public Health and National Lottery
This article examines the relationship between the Indonesian Ulama Council (MUI), a Muslim umbrella organisation, and the Indonesian state. It focuses on the dynamic role that MUI has played in public health issues and the national lottery …
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International Experience of State Regulation of Lotteries and Distribution of Proceeds from their Holding
The subject of the research is the international experience of organizing, conducting and regulating lotteries, as well as the practice of distributing proceeds from them …
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Verification of Implicit Tax Regressivity through Social Simulation
Lotteries in Japan are a prevalent form of gambling, and their sale is monopolized by public institutions. Profits from lottery sales are allocated to projects that serve the public interest. However, empirical evidence on who bears the burden of lottery payments across income groups remains limited …
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Luck's Metropolis: Lotteries, Class, and Finance in Early New York
Abstract: "Luck's Metropolis" shows how the lottery ticket market evolved in New York City between 1790 and 1820. Once an elite pastime associated with the common good, lottery gambling became an activity associated with a lower-class vice. This was a consequence of the emergence of corporations, which created new investment opportunities for elites …
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Exploring common representations in multi-task federated lottery ticket learning
Federated multi-task learning on edge devices faces prohibitive communication and computational costs from dense neural networks. We propose a framework that overcomes this by integrating a sparse hidden neural network, inspired by the lottery ticket hypothesis, with ATLAS, a dynamic sharing algorithm based on the common bases hypothesis (CBH) …
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Gambling Addiction in Senegal: Preliminary Results of A Study Conducted in Dakar Among Players of the Senegalese National Lottery (Lonase)
Gambling has long been practiced worldwide and remains deeply rooted in Senegalese society, particularly through the products of the national lottery company (LONASE). Despite increasing public concern about excessive gambling—especially among adolescents—no prior empirical study had documented the extent of gambling addiction in Senegal …
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A Structural Equation Modeling Investigation of the Effects of Stressful Life Events, Difficulties in Emotion Regulation, and Coping Motives on Problem Gambling among Lottery Gamblers in Mainland China
The predictive effect of stressful life events on problem gambling has been a hot topic in the field of addiction research. However, few studies have explored the underlying mechanisms …
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Research on the influence mechanism of social risk perception on addictive behavior among sports lottery gamblers: the moderating effect of social support
Against the backdrop of rapid social transformation, emerging social issues have heightened public uncertainty and risk perception. In this context, the consumption of China's sports lottery has expanded rapidly …
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Genetic-Based Lottery Ticket Pruning for Transformers in Sentiment Classification: Realized Through Lottery Sample Selection
In the growing field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), transformers have become excessively large, pushing the boundaries of both training and inference compute. Given the size and widespread use of these models, there is now a strong emphasis on improving both training and inference efficiency …
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Impact of online lottery sales prohibition on the structure of lottery consumers: A time cost perspective in China
Lottery public welfare funds constitute a significant source of government fiscal revenue. Consequently, it is of crucial importance to objectively analyze the impact of purchasing convenience on the lottery industry …
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Where to place my bets? Players’ adaptation to the reduction of gambling venues
Abstract This study examines players’ adaptation mechanisms after gambling venues reduction. Current research on gambling regulation focuses primarily on availability effects, yet empirical evidence on how players adapt to venue closures remains limited …
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ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF COMMISSION-BASED INCENTIVES ON LOTTERY AGENT MOTIVATION IN GALLE DISTRICT SRI LANKA
In an era marked by escalating living standards, the allure of lottery as an alternative revenue stream has surged globally, exemplified by Sri Lanka's long-standing lottery systems. However, the ethical dimensions of lottery sales practices remain critically under-explored …
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Examining Youth Protections against Gambling in Ireland: A Tiger Team (Red Team) Examination of the National Lottery
Youth gambling in Ireland is of growing concern. Objectives: Thus, this study evaluated youth gambling protections in the Irish National Lottery’s online age verification system. Methods: A Tiger Team (Red Team) methodology was used. This involved using falsified National Lottery accounts (n = 56) …
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Foreign experience of criminal liability for illegal gambling and lottery activities
It is indicated that the achievement of effective research is due to the need to improve the criminal procedural mechanism for controlling the monetary sphere in Ukraine, especially in the context of combating illegal forms of gambling …
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THE IMPACT OF PROMOTIONAL STRATEGIES ON CONSUMER PURCHASING BEHAVIOR OF LOTTERY PRODUCTS IN NIGERIA
Promotion strategies are critical in influencing consumer behavior and driving sales in various industries, including the lottery sector. However, the lottery industry, despite its long-standing presence and significant economic contributions, faces increasing challenges in sustaining and growing its consumer base …
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THE IMPACT OF PROMOTIONAL STRATEGIES ON CONSUMER PURCHASING BEHAVIOR OF LOTTERY PRODUCTS IN NIGERIA
Promotion strategies are critical in influencing consumer behavior and driving sales in various industries, including the lottery sector. However, the lottery industry, despite its long-standing presence and significant economic contributions, faces increasing challenges in sustaining and growing its consumer base …