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Essays On State Lottery Demand And Revenue Earmarks, Kara Diane Smith Mitchell
Essays On State Lottery Demand And Revenue Earmarks, Kara Diane Smith Mitchell
Doctoral Dissertations
Since the first modern state-sponsored lottery was instituted in New Hampshire in 1964, lotteries have proliferated to 42 states and the District of Colombia. With little exception, research has shown that these lotteries are a highly regressive form of taxation. However, this body of research does not take into account a theoretical finding that the manner in which collected funds are earmarked impacts participation patterns. The goal of this dissertation is to test this finding empirically.
In the first analysis, I use sales data from the Tennessee Education Lottery and scholarship data from the TEL Scholarship program to test this …