The legacy of conflict: aggregate evidence from Sierra Leone

Tillman Hönig

No wp-2021-104, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper studies the general equilibrium impact of civil war in Sierra Leone. I first use an instrumental variable (IV) strategy and geographic conflict variation to estimate reduced-form effects. I show that civil war leads to affected areas having a higher share of workers in agriculture, fewer educated workers, and lower worker income. In order to explicitly take into account general equilibrium effects such as selective migration in response to the war, I then develop an economic geography model.

Keywords: Conflict; Livelihoods; Structural transformation; Migration; Computable general equilibrium; Firm productivity; Human capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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