Research

Expanded Gambling in New Hampshire: an Update on Options

NH Center for Public Policy Studies, Feb. 2013

This paper presents the results of the latest update to the Center’s model of the potential impact of expanded gambling on New Hampshire.

WHY CASINOS MATTER: THIRTY-ONE EVIDENCE-BASED PROPOSITIONS FROM THE HEALTH AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

Council on Casinos, 2013

This report states that legalized gambling as “fun” entertainment is a relatively new phenomenon and outlines why the impact of casinos on American society matters whether you gamble or not.

New Hampshire Gaming Study Commission’s Final Report (pdf)

New Hampshire Gaming Study Commission appointed by Governor Lynch, May 2010

The Commission’s review of various models for expanded gaming and their potential to generate state revenues, as well as an assessment of the social, economic and public safety impacts of gaming options on the quality of life in New Hampshire.

Never a Sure Bet. Gambling Interests Spend Millions on Ballot Measures in Nine States (pdf)

The National Institute of Money in State Politics, October 2009

The Institute found that in the eight states holding referenda on gambling expansion in 2008, the gambling industry outspent opponents of gambling expansion by 48-to-1.

Casinos, Crime, & Community Costs (pdf)

Earl L. Grinols and David B. Mustard, Revised September 2004

A peer-reviewed study examining the relationship between casinos and crime. The most rigorous and widely-cited on the subject. This study quantifies the link between casinos and increases in aggravated assault, rape, robbery, larceny, burglary and auto theft in counties hosting casinos.