Seeking Leviathan? A test of the revenue maximisation objective in the South African National Lottery by Lyndal Keeton

“…This article seeks evidence of a Leviathan in the South African government in respect of the National Lottery. This search is motivated by the Lotteries Act of 1997 which legislates that the goal of the National Lottery is to maximise the public revenue raised from the sale of National Lottery tickets. …”
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Open science and modified funding lotteries can impede the natural selection of bad science by Paul E. Smaldino, Matthew A. Turner, Pablo A. Contreras Kallens

“…In addition, there have been increasing calls for funders to move away from prestige- or innovation-based approaches in favour of lotteries. We investigated whether such changes are likely to improve the reproducibility of science even in the presence of persistent incentives for publication quantity through computational modelling. …”
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Behavioral economics implementation: Regret lottery improves mHealth patient study adherence by S. Ali Husain, Keith M. Diaz, Joseph E. Schwartz, Faith E. Parsons, Matthew M. Burg, Karina W. Davidson, Ian M. Kronish

“…The weekly per-participant probability of adherence was higher after lottery initiation when comparing the 4-week (32% pre-lottery vs 50% post-lottery, p < 0.001), 8-week (37% vs 49%, p < 0.001), and 12-week periods (39% vs 45%, p = 0.001) before and after lottery initiation. …”
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The Lottery Tickets Hypothesis for Supervised and Self-supervised Pre-training in Computer Vision Models by Chen, Tianlong, Frankle, Jonathan, Chang, Shiyu, Liu, Sijia, Zhang, Yang, Carbin, Michael, Wang, Zhangyang

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Cash versus lottery video messages: online COVID-19 vaccine incentives experiment by Duch, RM, Barnett, A, Filipek, M, Espinosa-Brito, J, Roope, LSJ, Violato, M, Clarke, PM

“…We evaluate the impact on COVID-19 vaccine uptake of cash equivalents versus being entered into lotteries. We randomly assign 1628 unvaccinated US participants into one of three 45-second informational videos promoting vaccination with messages about (a) health benefits of COVID-19 vaccines (control), (b) being entered into lotteries or (c) receiving cash equivalent vouchers. …”

Dynamic spending responses to wealth shocks: evidence from quasi lotteries on the stock market by Andersen, AL, Johannesen, N, Sheridan, A

“…We address these questions using granular data on spending and stock portfolios from a large bank and exploiting lottery-like variation in gains across investors with similar portfolio characteristics. …”

The ‘Institutional Lottery’: institutional variation in the processes involved in accessing late abortion in Victoria, Australia by Haining, CM, Bowman-Smart, H, O'Rourke, A, de Crespigny, L, Keogh, LA, Savulescu, J

“…The results reveal the operation of an ‘institutional lottery’ whereby patients' experiences in seeking late abortion services were variable and largely shaped by the institution(s) they found themselves in.…”

Postcode lottery for Europe's undocumented children: Unravelling an uneven geography of entitlements in the European Union by Spencer, S

A meta-analysis of exogenous returns to schooling: Genetic lottery versus policy intervention by Soon, Jan-Jan

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“Lockdown was a blessing in disguise for me as it stopped me gambling” – First person account of a lottery addict from god's own country (Kerala, India) by Sanju George, Jessy Fenn, Noble Chacko

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Addiction and Spending in Gacha Games by Nikola Lakić, Andrija Bernik, Andrej Čep

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Chazkel, Amy. 2011. Laws of Chance: Brazil Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Urban Public Life. by Brigitte Abad-Vega

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Optimizing Multidisciplinary Simulation in Medical School for Larger Groups: Role Assignment by Lottery and Guided Learning by Borges LF, Robertson JM, Kappler SM, Venkatan SK, Jin DX, Barnes EL, Jaffer FA, Saldana FL, Dudzinski DM, Stefanescu Schmidt AC, Drachman DE, Young MN, Hayden EM, Pelletier SR, Shields HM

“…Verbatim free-text responses demonstrated resounding student appreciation for the role assignment by lottery method.Conclusion: We designed a novel, &ldquo;Orchestra Leader&rsquo;s&rdquo; chart approach for accommodating larger groups in a multidisciplinary simulation laboratory using role assignment by lottery, roles depicted on an organizational chart, and expert instructor prompting. …”
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Comparison of multiplicative and additive hyperbolic and hyperboloid discounting models in delayed lotteries involving gains and losses. by Wojciech Białaszek, Przemysław Marcowski, David J Cox

“…We refer to such scenarios as delayed lotteries. Despite human choice often involves delayed lotteries, past research has primarily focused on decisions with delayed or risky outcomes. …”
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Prospects for using charity lotteries in social marketing [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] by Reena Mehta, Nataliia Krasnostavskaia, Irina Vasilievna Kapustina, Inga Nimenia, Natalia Dedyukhina, Stepan Vinokurov, Elena Naumova, Nelli Kozlova, Svetlana Bozhuk, Sergey Evgenievich Barykin

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Lottery-Based Evaluations of Early Education Programs: Opportunities and Challenges for Building the Next Generation of Evidence by Christina Weiland, Rebecca Unterman, Susan Dynarski, Rachel Abenavoli, Howard Bloom, Breno Braga, Anne-Marie Faria, Erica Greenberg, Brian A. Jacob, Jane Arnold Lincove, Karen Manship, Meghan McCormick, Luke Miratrix, Tomás E. Monarrez, Pamela Morris-Perez, Anna Shapiro, Jon Valant, Lindsay Weixler

“…Lottery-based identification strategies offer potential for generating the next generation of evidence on U.S. early education programs. …”
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Postcode lottery? Do clinical commissioning groups differ in their funding of prominent ear correction surgery by Kirsty M. Smith, James A. Haeney

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Correction to ‘Open science and modified funding lotteries can impede the natural selection of bad science’ by Paul E. Smaldino, Matthew A. Turner, Pablo A. Contreras Kallens

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The Relationship Between Unexpected Outcomes and Lottery Gambling Rates in a Large Canadian Metropolitan Area by Hin-Ngai Fu, Eva Monson, Ross Otto

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Addressing the 'postcode lottery' in local resource allocation decisions: a framework for clinical commissioning groups. by Russell, J, Greenhalgh, P, Lewis, H, MacKenzie, I, Maskrey, N, Montgomery, J, O'Donnell, C

“…The NHS Constitution emphasizes patients’ rights to expect these decisions to be made ‘rationally’.1 The National Prescribing Centre (NPC), now the Medicines and Prescribing Centre at the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, has directed considerable effort in recent years at defining the parameters of rational decision-making, and supporting PCTs in improving their approaches to prioritization and resource allocation.2–5 A key driver for this activity has been the so-called ‘postcode lottery’ of local decision-making (whereby a patient in one geographical area may receive NHS funding for a particular drug or treatment while a patient with similar clinical needs in another area may not), and a requirement to ensure that local resource allocation decisions are able to withstand public challenge and judicial review.4<br/> Responding to concerns that significant organizational learning will be lost with the abolition of PCTs, and that new clinical commissioners will lack the skills, expertise and experience to make resource allocation decisions that have public and legal legitimacy, the NPC, commissioned by the Department of Health, embarked on a systematic process to develop a national ‘competency framework’ resource for those involved in making difficult prioritization decisions at a local level.…”