Austerity, welfare cuts and hate crime: Evidence from the UK's age of austerity
研究了英国2010年后的福利削减与仇恨犯罪增加之间的关系，发现每名劳动年龄成人损失100英镑，种族或宗教动机犯罪上升约5-6%，且效应稳健，原因可能是社区凝聚力下降而非福利领取者愤怒。
From 2010 the UK entered an ‘age of austerity’, with major cuts to welfare payments. We study the link between these cuts and increases in hate crimes. Using a panel of 313 Community Safety Partnerships areas in England and Wales, we show that for each £100 loss per working age adult, racially or religiously motivated crimes rose by approximately 5-6% in 2013/14 and 2014/15. These effects are large given a mean loss of £450 per working age adult and survive multiple robustness checks. Using individual data, we find no evidence that these crimes are driven by increased anger of the benefit recipients per se but find evidence for a decline in community cohesion.