@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp4990,
            	author={Bircan, Cagatay and Brück, Tilman and Vothknecht, Marc},
            	title={Violent Conflict and Inequality},
            	year={2010},
	month={Jun},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={4990},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp4990},
	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;war;inequality;reconstruction;income distribution},
            }