Sports Betting Legalization and Intimate Partner Violence Replication Data

Replication data and R code for the Arnesen & Matsuzawa study analyze the link between sports betting legalization and intimate partner violence. Created by Kyutaro Matsuzawa and updated in 2026, the collection provides the empirical basis for evaluating how gambling policy changes and emotional cues affect domestic abuse rates.

Use Cases

• Replicating the regression analysis of sports betting legalization status on IPV incidents
• Testing the effect of emotional cues from game outcomes on domestic violence reports
• Auditing the R scripts used for the study's causal inference modeling

Strengths

• Includes original R replication code for transparency
• Links specific gambling policy changes to social harm metrics
• Hosted on Harvard Dataverse for academic provenance

Limitations

• Unknown row count and specific variable definitions in metadata
• Limited to the specific temporal and geographic scope of the original study
• Potential underreporting bias inherent in intimate partner violence data

Provenance

Source

Arnesen & Matsuzawa study via Harvard Dataverse

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.