OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of the Delaware smoke-free law on gaming revenue. METHODS Linear regression of gaming revenue and average revenue per machine on a public policy variable, time, while controlling for economic activity and seasonal effects. RESULTS The linear regression showed that the smoke-free law was associated with no effect on total revenue or average revenue per machi...

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Previous research has indicated a surprising statistically significant impact on the local economy in the city that wins the Super Bowl. An analysis of personal income growth in victorious Super Bowl cities from 1972-2000 cannot further confirm these results, finding no statistically significant effect on the local economies of these cities. JEL Classification Codes: L83 Sports; Gambling; Recre...

Eric Hanushek is a Professor of Economics and Public Policy and Director of the W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy at the University of Rochester. He joined the University of Rochester in 1978 and has previously been Director of the university's Public Policy Analysis Program and Chairman of the Department of Economics. From 1983–85, he was Deputy Director of the Congressional Budge...

1Postgraduate Student, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Government Dental College & Research Institute, Bangalore, Karnataka, India, 2Professor and Head, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Government Dental College & Research Institute, Bangalore, Karnataka, India, 3Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Government Dental College & Research Institute, Bangalore, K...

We re-examine whether the broad support for repeal of the estate tax is a result of citizen ignorance. We find that increasing information about the estate tax or politics in general has very different effects on Republicans and Democrats. While high and lowinformation Republicans support estate tax repeal, Democratic support is higher among those who know less. However, most highly-informed pe...