A University of Nevada Las Vegas International Gaming Institute study published last year found 15% of Nevada adults are defined as problem gamblers, meaning they’ve experienced harm from their gambling “many times” in the last year. The national average is 2%, according to the National Council.

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Hosted by UNLV International Gaming Institute (IGI), the event will explore the most pressing and emerging issues in gambling and gaming. Held every three years, the conference hosts the best, most high-impact risk-taking research and education. The most recent conference, held in 2023, attracted several hundred attendees from more than two dozen countries and featured research spanning economics, public policy, mathematics, social sciences, and psychology.

Rowland Edet, a doctoral student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, wrote In “Breaking the Odds: A Gendered Analysis of Women and Gambling Behavior” published in the peer-reviewed Gaming Research and Review Journal at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, suggested that as more women are drawn to gambling, often prompted by different motivations than men, that policies should reflect gender differences.

Research into gaming environments has shown that spatial layout and sensory cues influence how visitors move through entertainment spaces. A report from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas International Gaming Institute research archive explains how architecture, lighting, and spatial organization affect engagement patterns and movement across gaming floors.

The real issue isn’t that younger adults don’t gamble. It’s that the decision model for how they choose entertainment has changed. Younger guests make choices differently, evaluate value differently and abandon experiences more quickly when something feels confusing, inconvenient or misaligned with how they spend their time.