Bonadio, Barthélémy; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Rohner, Dominic - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
subnational level. Using shocks to source country remittance outflows, we show that exogenous increases in remittances accessible … to the Sri Lankan subdistricts over the period of the conflict. Our main quantitative finding is that remittances had a … military strength of the Tamil Tigers than of the government. Remittances that favored the Tamil Tiger rebels may have …