Following the legalization of sports gambling in Kansas, Justin Balthrop, an assistant professor of finance, and a few other researchers at the University of Kansas conducted a study to find how the newly implemented legislation was impacting their state.
Missourians will vote whether to legalize sports wagering in the state in the Nov. 5 general election.
“The origins are just based out of a pure curiosity to understand how this new activity that’s available more and more is going to affect people,” Balthrop said. “As something like an industry like this grows from its infancy to its adolescence and beyond, we just want to understand the effect that it has.”
