Replication Data for: The Impact of Legalizing Mobile Sports Gambling in the United States on the Utilization of Problem Gambling Helpline Resources: The Cases of Tennessee and Virginia

Replication Data for: The Impact of Legalizing Mobile Sports Gambling in the United States on the Utilization of Problem Gambling Helpline Resources: The Cases of Tennessee and Virginia. This dataset was created by filing FOIA or public records requests for every state with problem gambling helpline resources. This dataset contains unused data from states that provided non-monthly data (i.e., quarterly or annual data). Additionally, due to contracting out, some state agencies could not clarify the data-generating process. For example, whether emails or texts were included in the total contacts reported by the helpline. Other data were not used in the analysis due to general missingness (i.e., missing entire years of monthly data) and non-random missingness (i.e., missing data shortly after the legalization of sports gambling was implemented in the state). Finally, some states did not respond to repeated requests for helpline data, and others denied the researcher's request because he was not a citizen of the state in question. For each state, I requested problem gambling helpline data from 01-01-2017 through 08-31-2021. I used the Unified_prob_gambling_dataset.xlsx to run the analysis found on Replication.do. All other files contain the raw data that was used to compile the Unified_prob_gambling_dataset.xlsx