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The gambling sector in Spain, is a subject worth studying due to its importance in the GDP and also the amount of jobs that it creates. But all that glitters is not gold, as this type of games can induce a serious addiction problem. In order to avoid that, as people should be free to spend their money in whatever they want. The only weapon remaining to fight that back is to be better informed, and this study is willing to learn more about it. The study is going to be divided in two different phases, the first one determining what makes a household spend money on gambling, and the second one will aim to find what shifts the amount they spend on it. This is going to be achieved by conducting an Ordinary Least Square regression for the first case. And a Tobit regression, that will censure households that do not gamble, for the second one. Both models will be divided in three different stages, where socioeconomic and macroeconomic variables are going to be added in each one of them, in order to see how the regressand changes. In particular, what is aimed to be found is the relationship that the response variables have with the income of the household. Obtaining this coefficient will allow to characterize its income elasticity, the type of good that gambling is and the kind of tax that it has, in Spain. Apart from that, and due to the controls that are going to be added in each stage, the head of the family that maximize both independent variables will be revealed. The main conclusions obtained are that income is significant and positive in the first model, so each increase of income makes the household more close to gambling. In the other model, the findings showed that gambling is a luxury good, that substantially increases with small changes in income. This increases do not follow a linear function, but one that flattens in higher levels. Do to this characteristics, the tax is progressive, making high income households contribute proportionally more than the ones with lower levels of income. Allowing for an accomplishment of vertical equity. Lastly, it was found that the only differences between the head that maximize the probability of a household to gamble and the amount spent in this activity, are the gender and the level of education. For a household to gamble it does not matter the gender of the head, while regarding spending households headed by men spend more. The other one is the level of education, that while lower levels of education make households gamble more money, a medium one makes them more prone to spend something on it. |
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dir. (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada)
