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David Darling is a professor in the
Department of Agricultural Economics,
Xiaolou Yang is currently
pursuing a doctorate in Agricultural
Economics, and Chatura B. Ariyaratne
is ABD in his doctoral program in the
Department of Agricultural Economics,
all at Kansas State University.
Introduction
With the advent of four new Native
American Gaming (NAG) properties in
Kansas, new jobs have been created in
Brown, Doniphan, and Jackson counties.
This positive development has
been balanced, to some degree, by the
costs to local governments, who have
to accommodate more visitors, police
more traffic, fight more crime, and deal
with unfortunate families impacted by
a member addicted to gambling. This
report is an estimate of the fiscal and
economic impacts of the gaming property
on the reservation of the Prairie
Band of the Potawatomi Tribe in
Jackson County, just north of Topeka,
Kansas.
The region being analyzed is the
combined area of Jackson and
Shawnee counties. The time period
chosen is the year 1999, the second
year of operation.The researchers have
used a variety of data sources and
have compared Jackson County to
Pottawatomie, Brown, Nemaha, and
Shawnee counties. Pottawatomie
County acts as a control county. Using
the USDA, ERS system of county codes
that are called the Rural-Urban Continuum
Codes (Butler and Beale, 1993),
the authors found Jackson County to
be similar to Pottawatomie County but
without a NAG property. Thus, readers
should compare the two to gain
insight into the relative impact of the
new NAG property on the reservation.
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