%0 Report
        %A Bircan, Cagatay
%A Brück, Tilman
%A Vothknecht, Marc
        %T Violent Conflict and Inequality
        %D 2010
        %8 2010 Jun
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 4990
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp4990
        %X 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.
        %K conflict
%K war
%K inequality
%K reconstruction
%K income distribution