TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bircan, Cagatay
AU  - Brück, Tilman
AU  - Vothknecht, Marc
        TI  - Violent Conflict and Inequality
        PY  - 2010/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 4990
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp4990
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - conflict
KW  - war
KW  - inequality
KW  - reconstruction
KW  - income distribution
        ER  -