In 2018, I wrote a critical blog post about a study that examined whether welfare reforms caused Brexit. The study, now published in American Economic Review, concludes “that the EU referendum could have resulted in a Remain victory had it not been for austerity”. (It is by the same researcher who tried to make people […]
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Did welfare reforms cause Brexit?
Did welfare policy reforms directly cause Brexit? That’s the conclusion in this article: “Tory austerity and welfare cuts directly caused Brexit, according to a ground-breaking new academic study.” The results in the new academic study, ‘Did Austerity Cause Brexit?‘, “suggest that the EU referendum could have resulted in a Remain victory had it not been […]