ANJL disputes study linking Brazilian betting to household debt
Brazil’s National Association of Games and Lotteries (ANJL) submitted a report to the government challenging research by the National Trade Confederation (CNC) that linked sports betting with household debt and defaults. ANJL argued that the study’s comparison lacked a control group and could not establish causation; its report did not independently measure betting’s effects or show that betting has no effect.
The competing claims leave betting’s effects on household debt uncertain, since neither study establishes causation or independently measures those effects.