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- Title
The Relationship Between Exclusions from Gambling Arcades and Accessibility: Evidence from a Newly Introduced Exclusion Program in Hesse, Germany.
- Authors
Strohäker, Tanja; Becker, Tilman
- Abstract
An exclusion system for gambling arcades has been introduced recently in the state of Hesse. The aim of this paper is to identify significant predictors that are useful in explaining the variation of exclusions between different Hessian communities. Next to socio-demographic factors, we control for three different accessibility variables in two models: the number of electronic gambling machines (EGMs) in model I, and the number of locations and density of gambling machines at a location in model II. We disentangle the association between EGMs and exclusions of model I into a location and a clustering effect. Considering the socio-demographic variables, the explanatory power of our cross-sectional models is rather low. Only the age group of the 30-39 years old and those who are not in a partnership (in model I) yield significant results. As self-exclusion systems reduce availability for the group of vulnerable players, this analysis provides evidence for the assumption that the two groups-pathological gamblers and vulnerable players-seem to have little overlap concerning sociodemographic characteristics. The accessibility variables, on the other hand, turn out to be significantly associated with the number of exclusions. All three of them are statistically significant and their association is positive. The results of model II show that the location effect is more pronounced then the clustering effect of EGMs, i.e. the effect of an additional single-licensed arcade on the number of exclusions is stronger than the increase in the number of license at one location.
- Subjects
HESSE (Germany); GERMANY; GAMBLING arcades; SOCIAL marginality; GAMBLING -- Social aspects; GAMBLER psychology; COMPULSIVE behavior; GAMBLING &; psychology; RECREATION; CLUSTER analysis (Statistics); HEALTH attitudes; LOCUS of control; CROSS-sectional method; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Journal of Gambling Studies, 2018, Vol 34, Issue 3, p1033
- ISSN
1050-5350
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s10899-018-9762-2