Religion and gambling in sin-city: A statistical analysis of the relationship between religion and gambling patterns in Las Vegas residents

By J. D. Diaz. 2000

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Subfields: Accounting, Clinical Psychology

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1. Alok Kumar
2. Samuel Kwaku Agyei
3. Oliver Spalt
4. J. Page
5. Anup Agrawal
6. Binay Adhikari
7. Bing Han
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2. J. Page
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Citations in the corpus

• Family-firm risk-taking: Does religion matter? (2015, unknown): “Diaz (2000) finds that religious people living in Las Vegas gamble less.”
• Culture, financial literacy, and SME performance in Ghana (2018, background): “Adhikari and Agrawal (2016) argued that Catholics, and not Protestants, are more likely to be innovative since Catholic beliefs accommodate gambling than that of Protestants (see also Diaz, 2000; Schneider & Spalt, 2017; Shu, Sulaeman, & Yeung, 2012).”
• Religious Social Norms and Corporate Financial Reporting (2012, unknown): “Second, religious individuals are commonly characterized as more risk averse than non-religious individuals (Miller, 2000; Diaz, 2000; and Miller and Hoffman, 1995). Extending this intuition to the corporate setting, Hilary and Hui (2009) document that managers of US firms located in geographic regi”
• Religious Beliefs, Gambling Attitudes, and Financial Market Outcomes (2011, background): “It has even used gambling in the form of bingo and charitable gaming events as an important source of fundraising (e.g., Diaz, 2000; Hoffman, 2000).”
• CEO Overconfidence and International Merger and Acquisition Activity (2013, unknown): “Earlier studies such as Miller and Hoffman (1995), Diaz (2000), Halek and Eisenhauer (2001), and Osoba (2003) report an inverse relation between religiosity and individual risk tolerance. Hilary and Hui (2009) confirm this result and find that firms located in U.”
• Does Local Religiosity Matter for Bank Risk-Taking? (2016, unknown): “First, top executives of firms are often                                                              5 See, e.g., Miller and Hoffmann (1995), Diaz (2000), Halek and Eisenhauer (2001), and Osoba (2003).”