PROBABILITY OF PURCHASE, AMOUNT OF PURCHASE, AND THE DEMOGRAPHIC INCIDENCE OF THE LOTTERY TAX
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
SCOTT, F; GAREN, J
刊物名称：
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
ISSN/ISSBN：
0047-2727
DOI：
10.1016/0047-2727(94)90073-6
发表日期：
1994
页码：
121-143
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摘要：
When consumers' indifference curves are discontinuous at zero, perhaps due to stigma or fixed costs of purchase, then factors influencing the amount purchased will have a different effect on the probability of purchase. Estimation of the demand for a commodity like lottery tickets requires a procedure that accounts for this. Tobit estimation, commonly used in this literature, does not allow for this generalization. We investigate individual lottery ticket purchases using data from a survey of households. Our results are quite disparate from earlier studies regarding the effects of many demographic variables on probability of play, level of play, and expected lottery ticket purchases, and imply a different demographic incidence of the lottery tax than previous studies suggest.
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