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Conformity Traps and the Formation of Independent Judgment
Hector Galindo-Silva
I study why some groups---polities and organizations alike---sustain independent judgment while others fall into conformity traps. Social approval can suppress not only the express…
Environmental Threat and the Nation: Earthquake Risk, Distributive Priority, and Expressive Attachment
Hector Galindo-Silva
This paper studies how long-run earthquake risk shapes national identity, separating a distributive margin (national membership as a rule for allocating scarce resources) from an e…
Colonial Rule and Religious Change: Evidence from Africa's Colonial Borders
Hector Galindo-Silva
The European colonization of sub-Saharan Africa drove a massive shift from indigenous religions to Christianity, yet the channels through which this transformation occurred remain…
Institutions, Education, and Religious Change: Evidence from Colombia
Hector Galindo-Silva, Paula Paula Herrera-Idarraga
How do religious identities change? We study the effects of civic education reforms on religious identification using Colombia's 1991 Constitution, which dismantled the country's c…
The centripetal pull of climate: Evidence from European Parliament elections (1989-2019)
Marco Dueñas, Hector Galindo-Silva, Antoine Mandel
This paper examines the impact of temperature shocks on European Parliament elections. We combine high-resolution climate data with results from parliamentary elections between 198…
Religious Competition, Cultural Change, and Domestic Violence: Evidence from Colombia
Hector Galindo-Silva, Guy Tchuente
We study how religious competition-defined as the entry of a religious organization with innovative worship practices into a predominantly Catholic municipality-affects domestic vi…
Ideological Ambiguity and Political Spectrum
Hector Galindo-Silva
This study examines the relationship between ambiguity and the ideological positioning of political parties across the political spectrum. We identify a strong non-monotonic (inver…
Culture, Gender, and Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Colombia
Hector Galindo-Silva, Paula Herrera-Idárraga
This study investigates the impact of integrating gender equality into the Colombian constitution of 1991 on attitudes towards gender equality, experiences of gender-based discrimi…
Armed Conflict and Early Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from Cameroon's Anglophone Conflict
Hector Galindo-Silva, Guy Tchuente
This paper examines the impact of the Anglophone Conflict in Cameroon on human capital accumulation. Using high-quality individual-level data on test scores and information on conf…
Ethnic Groups' Access to State Power and Group Size
Hector Galindo-Silva
Ethnic-based political inequality is widespread, yet its underlying drivers remain poorly understood. This paper shows that an ethnic group's relative size is a key correlate of it…
Conflict externalization and the quest for peace: theory and case evidence from Colombia
Hector Galindo-Silva
I study the relationship between the likelihood of a violent domestic conflict and the risk that such a conflict "externalizes" (i.e. spreads to another country by creating an inte…
External Threats, Political Turnover and Fiscal Capacity
Hector Galindo-Silva
In most of the recent literature on state capacity, the significance of wars in state-building assumes that threats from foreign countries generate common interests among domestic…
Fighting for Not-So-Religious Souls: The Role of Religious Competition in Secular Conflicts
Hector Galindo-Silva, Guy Tchuente
Many countries embroiled in non-religious civil conflicts have experienced a dramatic increase in religious competition in recent years. This study examines whether increasing comp…
Political Openness and Armed Conflict: Evidence from Local Councils in Colombia
Hector Galindo-Silva
In this paper, I empirically investigate how the openness of political institutions to diverse representation can impact conflict-related violence. By exploiting plausibly exogenou…
Fuzzy Difference-in-Discontinuities: Identification Theory and Application to the Affordable Care Act
Hector Galindo-Silva, Nibene Habib Some, Guy Tchuente
This paper explores the use of a fuzzy regression discontinuity design where multiple treatments are applied at the threshold. The identification results show that, under the very…