Tesis
Drunk gamblers : the impact of legalized gambling on alcohol consumption
Autor
Rossi, Martín
Institución
Resumen
This Paper studies the effect of legal gambling on alcohol consumption in the
United States. The analysis uses the fact that different states legalized gambling in
different periods, while some states have not legalized gambling yet. The paper uses
this particular variation across time and space as an instrument to identify the casual
effect of legal gambling on alcohol consumption. After controlling for state and year
fixed effects, I find the states that legalized gambling experienced a 5 percent increase
in alcohol consumption.