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ArticleJournal of gambling studies2025

The Effect of Gambling on Saving Behaviour in Australia.

Opoku Adabor

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Article in Journal of gambling studies, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Opoku AdaborSchool of Economics, Finance, and Marketing (EFM), RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. adaboropoku@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9162-2590

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although gambling can be a form of entertainment for some, it is commonly associated with social, psychological, financial, and physical harm. To reduce the adverse effects of gambling, it is important to examine the implications of gambling for policy formulation. In this study, we examine the causal impact of gambling on savings behaviour using a sample of gamblers from Australian household panel data for the period of 2015 and 2018. Our results show that gambling is associated with poor savings behaviour. This result is robust to different measures of gambling, eight different sub-groups and four gambling risk statuses. Our mediation results show that social capital and locus of control are mechanisms through which gambling influences saving behaviour.

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Behavior, AddictiveGamblingInternal-External ControlSocial CapitalAdultAustraliaFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedGamblingLocus of controlSavings behaviourSocial capital and Australia

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PMID40526325
PMCPMC12657528

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