4 papers
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…
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…