Clifton-Sprigg, Joanna; Homburg, Ines; James, Jonathan G.; … - 2023
By voting to leave the European Union (EU) in 2016, the United Kingdom (UK) set off a long period of uncertainty and … decision affected EU-UK migration patterns. We exploit the Brexit referendum as a natural experiment and employ a (synthetic …) difference-in-differences estimator to compare EU migration (treated) to non-EU migration (untreated) in the UK. We find a …