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Was Brexit triggered by the old and unhappy? Or by financial feelings?

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Liberini, Federica, Oswald, Andrew J. , Proto, Eugenio and Redoano, Michela (2019) Was Brexit triggered by the old and unhappy? Or by financial feelings? Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 161 . pp. 287-302. doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2019.03.024

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2019.03.024

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Abstract

On 23 June 2016, the United Kingdom voted in favour of ‘Brexit’. This paper is an attempt to understand why. It examines the micro-econometric predictors of anti-EU sentiment. The paper provides the first evidence for the idea that a key channel of influence was through a person’s feelings about his or her own financial situation. By contrast, the paper finds relatively little regression-equation evidence for the widely discussed idea that Brexit was favoured by the old and the unhappy. The analysis shows that UK citizens’ feelings about their incomes were a substantially better predictor of pro-Brexit views than their actual incomes. This seems an important message for economists, because the subject of economics has typically avoided the study of human feelings in favour of ‘objective’ data.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): European Union -- Great Britain -- Psychological aspects, Income -- Psychological aspects -- Great Britain
Journal or Publication Title: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Publisher: Elsevier BV * North-Holland
ISSN: 0167-2681
Official Date: May 2019
Dates:
DateEvent
May 2019Published
18 April 2019Available
28 March 2019Accepted
Volume: 161
Page Range: pp. 287-302
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2019.03.024
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access

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