IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bla/pbudge/v39y2019i1p67-88.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Video Gambling Adoption and Tax Revenues: Evidence from Illinois

Author

Listed:
  • Saied Toossi
  • Pengju Zhang

Abstract

Illinois legalized video gambling in 2009 but afforded municipalities the option of allowing or prohibiting it within their jurisdictions. Using municipal‐level data, this paper seeks to shed light on the underlying factors influencing this decision process and, conditional on adoption, the primary drivers of video gambling tax revenues. The analysis suggests that political and moral considerations, rather than fiscal needs or defensive legalization, underpin the decision to adopt. Conditional on adoption, the exposure to and prevalence of video gambling is associated with greater tax revenues. Video gambling also appears to be a substitute for casino gambling, leading to some intra‐industry cannibalization.

Suggested Citation

  • Saied Toossi & Pengju Zhang, 2019. "Video Gambling Adoption and Tax Revenues: Evidence from Illinois," Public Budgeting & Finance, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 39(1), pages 67-88, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:pbudge:v:39:y:2019:i:1:p:67-88
    DOI: 10.1111/pbaf.12211
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/pbaf.12211
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1111/pbaf.12211?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Can Chen & Whitney B. Afonso, 2021. "The Adoption of Local Option Fuel Taxes: Evidence From Florida Counties," Public Budgeting & Finance, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 41(1), pages 51-75, March.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bla:pbudge:v:39:y:2019:i:1:p:67-88. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0275-1100 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.