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<p>This study examines the impact of the Sierra Leone civil war on household expenditure inequality. The paper exploits three rounds of household survey data for Sierra Leone in an attempt to estimate the impact of the conflict on the distribution of household welfare over both short-run and long-run periods. The empirical approach uses RIF measures based on the Gini index and also provides estimates of treatment effects at selected quantiles of the unconditional household expenditure distribution. The key findings reveal that localities subject to a protracted period of occupation by rebel forces experienced a sharp reduction in household expenditure inequality in the immediate aftermath of the conflict with most of the contraction evident at the top end of the distribution.</p>
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This study examines the impact of the Sierra Leone civil war on household expenditure inequality. The paper exploits three rounds of household survey data for Sierra Leone in an attempt to estimate the impact of the conflict on the distribution of household welfare over both short-run and long-run periods. The empirical approach uses RIF measures based on the Gini index and also provides estimates of treatment effects at selected quantiles of the unconditional household expenditure distribution. The key findings reveal that localities subject to a protracted period of occupation by rebel forces experienced a sharp reduction in household expenditure inequality in the immediate aftermath of the conflict with most of the contraction evident at the top end of the distribution.

The distributional impact of the Sierra Leone conflict on household welfare

IZA Journal of Development and Migration

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This study examines the impact of the Sierra Leone civil war on household expenditure inequality. The paper exploits three rounds of household survey data for...

The distributional impact of the Sierra Leone conflict on household welfare

Published Online: Dec 04, 2022

Page range: -

Accepted: Oct 08, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/izajodm-2022-0009

Keywords
conflict, Sierra Leone, household welfare inequality

© 2022 Barry Reilly et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

The distributional impact of the Sierra Leone conflict on household welfare

Published Online: Dec 04, 2022

Page range: -

Accepted: Oct 08, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/izajodm-2022-0009

Keywordsconflict, Sierra Leone, household welfare inequality

© 2022 Barry Reilly et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
conflict, Sierra Leone, household welfare inequality