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Authors’ response to M R Pakko

University of California, San Francisco, California, USA

Correspondence to:
S Glantz
glantz@medicine.ucsf.edu

Keywords: gambling; smoking; revenues

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Pakko¹ takes issue with our paper "Smoke-free law did not affect revenue from gaming in Delaware,"^2,3 arguing that our methods were not sufficient because we failed to control for serial correlation and used a method of controlling for heteroskedasticity that did not meet his approval. We found these concerns odd, since in his original analysis claiming that there were negative effects of the Delaware law (published on the internet as a working paper⁴) he did not correct for either serial correlation or heteroskedasticity. Indeed, correcting Pakko’s original model for heteroskedacity led to the conclusion that the Delaware smoke-free law was not associated with a significant change in revenues.

Now, Pakko has produced yet another, more complex statistical model, which he uses to repeat his argument that the Delaware law had an adverse economic impact. Pakko does not present any statistical evidence that his new model is correctly specified, nor . . . [Full text of this article]

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