Violent Conflict and Inequality

Çağatay Bircan, Tilman Br�ck and Marc Vothknecht ()
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Tilman Br�ck: German Institute for Economic Research
Marc Vothknecht: German Institute for Economic Research
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No 77, HiCN Working Papers from Households in Conflict Network

Abstract: This paper analyzes the distributive impacts of violent conflicts, which is in contrast to previous literature that has focused on the other direction. We use cross-country panel data for the time period 1960-2005 to estimate war-related changes in income inequality. Our results indicate rising levels of inequality during war and especially in the early period of post-war reconstruction. However, we find that this rise in income inequality is not permanent. While inequality peaks around five years after the end of a conflict, it declines again to pre-war levels within the end of the first post-war period. Lagged effects of conflict and only subsequent adjustments of redistributive policies in the period of post-war reconstruction seem to be valid explanations for these patterns of inequality. A series of alternative specifications confirms the main findings of the analysis.

Keywords: Conflict; Inequality; Reconstruction; Income Distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O11 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2010-05
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