This paper examines empirically the effect of social capital, measured by household membership in community … standard information on household welfare with multidimensional measures of social capital, the paper attempts to address three … challenges in the empirical estimation of the effect of social capital on household welfare: 1) the differential effects of …

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 …