Interest in Sports and Sports Betting

Jaume Garcia, Levi Pérez and María José Suárez

Journal of Sports Economics, 2025, vol. 26, issue 3, 336-352

Abstract: There has been a worldwide growth in sports betting activity, in part due to the widespread use of the Internet. The objective of this research is to make a joint analysis of the probabilities of offline and online sports gambling participation, focusing on their association with sport-related variables. To this aim, we estimate a bivariate probit model of online and offline sports betting using the 2022 Spanish Survey of Sporting Habits, a cross-sectional database representative of the Spanish population (sample size: 10,267 observations). In general, interest in sports and sports practice are correlated with sports betting. Moreover, people who play sports and, in particular, those who play football, have a higher probability of betting offline. In the case of online betting, all sport-related variables are statistically significant but sports participation. Another noteworthy result is the positive correlation in the random terms of the probabilities of offline and online sports betting.

Keywords: offline sports betting; online sports betting; interest in sports; gambling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1177/15270025241308846

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