Scholarly Comments on Academic Economics

Correctly Critiquing Casino-Crime Causality

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*Earl L. Grinols* is Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University and former Senior Economist for the Council of Economic Advisers. A University of Michigan Angell Scholar and a mathematics _summa cum laude_
*David B. Mustard* is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia and a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (link) in Bonn, Germany. Mustard earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the Uni

Abstract

Professor Walker raises five concerns about our previous research on casinos and crime, published in the Review of Economics and Statistics. All of his concerns speak of potential problems and he includes no new results to provide evidence that the potential problems are actual problems or that they are important. We address each of his criticisms by documenting how we treated them in the working and published versions of our paper, and where appropriate, we elaborate on the concerns. Because he presents no new data, no new research, and his criticisms are largely addressed in our previous work, we have no reason to alter the conclusions of our existing research.

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Volume (Issue)
Pages
21-31
Published
JEL classification
K42
Keywords
Casinos, Crime, Causal Identification, Tourism
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