Gender and gambling preference

Bacon, Philomena M., Conte, Anna and Moffatt, Peter G. (2024) Gender and gambling preference. Applied Economics, 56 (4). pp. 426-439. ISSN 0003-6846

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Abstract

Gambling preferences are analysed using survey data from the wider population. Respondents were confronted with a hypothetical lottery question, in which they were asked to imagine having just won a large prize, and asked how much of this prize they would be willing to invest in a further gamble. We observe the majority of respondents avoiding the gamble altogether. We demonstrate that such behaviour cannot easily be explained by standard models of choice under risk, since it implies implausible degrees of risk aversion. We propose that the observed behaviour can instead be explained in terms of gambling aversion. Since the decision variable takes the form of the number of ``units'' of the prize that the respondent wishes to invest in the gamble, and since the decision is observed twice for some respondents, we adopt the panel version of the Zero-Inflated Poisson model as an econometric framework. We assume that individual characteristics affect both stages of the decision-making process. We are particularly interested in the effect of gender, and we find that males have a significantly higher probability of participating in the gamble, and are also (conditional on gambling) prepared to gamble significantly larger amounts.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Author Acknowledgments: We acknowledge access to the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for use in this research under licence number: 2596. Declarations: Codes are available from the authors upon request.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	gambling behaviour,gender,panel zero-inflated poisson model,survey data,economics and econometrics ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2000/2002
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Economics
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Centres > Norwich Institute for Healthy Aging Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Behavioural Economics Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Applied Econometrics And Finance Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Sciences
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	06 Jan 2023 11:36
Last Modified:	09 Mar 2024 08:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/90450
DOI:	10.1080/00036846.2023.2168609

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