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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

Publié en ligne: 04 déc. 2022

Pages: -

Accepté: 08 oct. 2022

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

Mots clés
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

Publié en ligne: 04 déc. 2022

Pages: -

Accepté: 08 oct. 2022

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

Mots clésconflict, 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.

Mots clés
conflict, Sierra Leone, household welfare inequality