全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP13439 Was Brexit Triggered by the Old and Unhappy? Or by Financial Feelings?

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP13439
	DP13439 Was Brexit Triggered by the Old and Unhappy? Or by Financial Feelings?
	Federica Liberini; Andrew Oswald; Eugenio Proto; Michela Redoano
发表日期	2019-01-10
出版年	2019
语种	英语
摘要	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.
主题	Public Economics
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp13439
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/542254
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Federica Liberini,Andrew Oswald,Eugenio Proto,et al. DP13439 Was Brexit Triggered by the Old and Unhappy? Or by Financial Feelings?. 2019.