Credit Expansion and Income Inequality: Distributional Threshold Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

This dataset accompanies the study "Credit Expansion and Income Inequality: Distributional Threshold Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa." It contains an unbalanced panel of 44 Sub-Saharan African countries covering the period 2000–2019. The dataset was compiled to examine the distribution-sensitive effects of financial deepening on income inequality.

The primary explanatory variable is private sector credit as a percentage of GDP, used as a measure of financial depth (credit expansion). The dependent variables are market income inequality and disposable income inequality, enabling comparisons between pre- and post-fiscal redistribution outcomes. Additional control variables commonly employed in the finance–inequality literature are included to account for macroeconomic, demographic, institutional, and structural characteristics.

The dataset is structured as a country-year panel and is suitable for panel data estimation techniques, including fixed-effects, random-effects, and panel quantile regression. In the associated study, panel quantile regression is used to investigate whether the impact of financial depth varies across the conditional distribution of income inequality.