Evaluating the Life Cycles of Education-Supporting Lotteries

Paul Mason, Jeffrey Steagall, Stephen L. Shapiro and Michael M. Fabritius
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Stephen L. Shapiro: University of North Florida
Michael M. Fabritius: University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

Public Finance Review, 2005, vol. 33, issue 2, 255-271

Abstract: This article examines the history of total lottery sales for eleven education-supporting lottery states. Controlling for the influence of multistate games, state income differentials, and unemployment, unbalanced fixed-effects models investigating four measures of lottery sales indicate that nominal lottery sales continue to climb, but sales adjusted for inflation are either falling or soon will. Per capita sales across all states have not grown much beyond the first several years in the lottery life cycles, but per student sales are still rising due to declining school-age populations and purchases of lottery tickets made by other than state residents. Forecasts for real per capita lottery sales are provided for each of the states in the sample through 2030.

Keywords: state lotteries; life cycles; lottery sales; per capita; per student (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1177/1091142104273195

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