Sentence examples for lottery effect from inspiring English sources

Americans are mistaken about income inequality because of national self-confidence and the lottery effect.

Aside from faith in American national excellence, the other main reason Americans seem so unperturbed by the widening chasm between the rich and everyone else is what I like to call the lottery effect.

Second is what Alan Greenspan once called "the lottery effect" — that investors will pay a lot for a shot at the 50percentt returns that some hedge funds occasionally get.

There is a lottery effect; if your parents owned property, or die early (before they spend their savings on nursing care), then you have a big advantage over others who may be just as hard-working or talented.

Reform of the trial process along the lines of the 1989 Pigot report, so that all the evidence of the complainant would be recorded before trial, would encourage victims to speak out and reduce the lottery effect of the court process, peculiarly chronic in this kind of case.

This uncertainty is typically compounded by some form of lottery effect, exacerbating early pay-offs for the first actors.

The flight reductions as a result of the lottery took effect officially on Jan.

The Stanford experiment adds a social network component to the lottery, in effect making it a game where friends can observe one another's "good" behavior.

Certainly, something like that explains the propensity of lower-income citizens to spend disproportionate amounts of their income playing the lottery, in effect gambling on an escape from poverty.

Göritz [ 27] reports no lottery incentive effect on response quality, while Bonke and Fallesen [ 28] reports the opposite.

Six months later I was drafted, part of the last batch of former I-Y's (Student deferment) to get snatched before the lottery went into effect.