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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…