@techreport{Bircan2010Violent,
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.},
address = {Berlin},
author = {Cagatay Bircan and Tilman Br\"{u}ck and Marc Vothknecht},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {O11; O15; 330; Conflict; inequality; reconstruction; income distribution; Krieg; Kriegsfolgen; Verteilungswirkung; Einkommensverteilung; Sch\"{a}tzung; Welt},
language = {eng},
number = {1013},
publisher = {Deutsches Institut f\"{u}r Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)},
title = {Violent conflict and inequality},
type = {Discussion papers // German Institute for Economic Research},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/36745},
year = {2010}
}
