Assessing the Costs of `Addicted' Gamblers

Gerstein, D., Volberg, R., Harwood, H. and Christiansen, E. (2004) Assessing the Costs of `Addicted' Gamblers. Managerial and Decision Economics, 25(4), pp. 201-203. (doi: 10.1002/mde.1175)

Abstract

An article by researcher John W. Kindt, 'The Costs of Addicted Gamblers: Should the States Initiate Mega-Lawsuits Similar to the Tobacco Cases?' refers at one point to research done for the National Gambling Impact Study Commission in 1998-1999 by the staff of the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. Kindt devotes only two paragraphs to the social cost estimates developed by the NORC team. However, these paragraphs are so heavily freighted with summary judgments and innuendoes as to require a comparatively lengthy commentary. Kindt criticizes NORC team for not providing a comparison or benchmark for the new approach by using both the old and new approaches with the same data. The NORC team was unable to fit both approaches within the constraints of their survey for the commission. But subsequent studies----carried out in Arizona, Nevada. North Dakota and Oregon--provide detailed information on how the NORC method performs in relation to older, more widely used problem gambling screens

• Item Type: Articles
• Keywords: Casinos, Cost Estimates, Gamblers, Gambling, Gambling -- Law & Legislation, Gambling -- Research, Gambling Industry, Judgments, Research, State
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Volberg, Dr Rachel
• Authors: Gerstein, D., Volberg, R., Harwood, H., and Christiansen, E.
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Sociology Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences
• Journal Name: Managerial and Decision Economics
• ISSN: 0143-6570