7 papers
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…