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Muggleton, N., Parpart, P., Newall, Philip, Leake, D., Gathergood, J. and Stewart, Neil (2021) The association between gambling and financial, social, and health outcomes in big financial data. Nature Human Behaviour, 5 . pp. 319-326. doi:10.1038/s41562-020-01045-w ISSN 2397-3374.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-01045-w
Abstract
Gambling is an ordinary pastime for some people, but is associated with addiction and harmful outcomes for others. Evidence of these harms is limited to small-sample, cross-sectional self-reports, such as prevalence surveys. We examine the association between gambling as a proportion of monthly income and 31 financial, social and health outcomes using anonymous data provided by a UK retail bank, aggregated for up to 6.5 million individuals over up to 7 years. Gambling is associated with higher financial distress and lower financial inclusion and planning, and with negative lifestyle, health, well-being and leisure outcomes. Gambling is associated with higher rates of future unemployment and physical disability and, at the highest levels, with substantially increased mortality. Gambling is persistent over time, growing over the sample period, and has higher negative associations among the heaviest gamblers. Our findings inform the debate over the relationship between gambling and life experiences across the population.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare R Medicine > RC Internal medicine |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Behavioural Science Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Engineering > WMG (Formerly the Warwick Manufacturing Group) |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Gambling , Gambling -- Economic aspects, Gambling -- Psychological aspect, Gambling -- Social aspects, Compulsive gambling | ||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Nature Human Behaviour | ||||||||||||
| Publisher: | Springer Nature Group | ||||||||||||
| ISSN: | 2397-3374 | ||||||||||||
| Official Date: | March 2021 | ||||||||||||
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| Volume: | 5 | ||||||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 319-326 | ||||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41562-020-01045-w | ||||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 6 January 2021 | ||||||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 4 August 2021 | ||||||||||||
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