Are State Lotteries Making a Difference in the American States?
Rodney E. Stanley and P. Edward FrenchThe academic literature concerning the impact of state lotteries on education has dealt primarily with issues of funding. Absent from the literature are studies measuring college enrollment numbers before and after the adoption of a state lottery. This study attempts to fill a void in the literature regarding the relationship between lotteries and higher education by answering the following question: Are state-operated lotteries increasing the number of students enrolled in institutions of higher learning in the United States? Pooled time series cross-sectional regression analysis is the methodological technique used to test the data in this research project. The authors suggest that state-operated lotteries have not had the impact on enrollments in institutions of higher education that many practitioners and scholars originally anticipated.Published: Chicago Policy Review (Volume 10, No. 1, 2006).
