Pablo Argote
Biographic Data
| ID | 935898 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pablo Argote |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pablo |
| FAMILY NAME | Argote |
| SIGNATURE | ARGOTE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2812-4123 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Chile 2024: La Resiliencia de la Ideología y el Auge de las Actitudes Anti-Élite
Shade-grown authoritarianism? Revisiting coffee as a curse in Latin America and the Caribbean
The Anti-Left Legacy of the Pinochet Dictatorship
Educational systems can serve as powerful tools for attempted authoritarian indoctrination. What is the legacy of education under authoritarianism, and does it persist after the regime ends? We exploit a discrete change in the school curriculum generated by the Chilean 1973 coup. After the coup, the military junta overhauled the curriculum to align with its ideology. We use a regression discontinuity to compare people who were barely exposed to t…
Politics Matter: How Political Experience Mitigates Learning Losses Caused by Natural Disasters
Growing evidence warns about the detrimental effects of the stress induced by natural disasters on learning outcomes. Yet less is known about how political leadership could mitigate the adverse exposure to these events. Exploiting a natural experiment—the massive 2010 earthquake in Chile—as an exogenous shock and using fine-grained student data, we find that school disruption has a short and long-term impact on students’ test scores. Moreover, ou…
The formation of attitudes toward immigration in Colombia
What explains elevated hostility toward immigrants? We identify two concerns that affect support for immigration: labor market competition and social proximity between immigrants and natives. Relying on a conjoint experiment embedded in an original face-to-face survey, we explore these dynamics in one of the largest migratory flows of the last decade: the Venezuelan exodus to Colombia. We find that respondents primarily reject lower-skill migrant…
Explaining the Impact of South-South Migration: Evidence from Chile's Immigration Boom
Does Voluntary Voting Enhance Partisan Bias? Evidence from Chile
Although partisan bias - when an authority transfers discretionary public resources to a politically aligned receiver − has been extensively studied, less is known about how this practice is affected by the voting regime − compulsory or voluntary voting. In this article, I study partisan bias in Chile, using administrative data of transfers from the central authority to local governments, highlighting two relevant scope conditions: the electoral …
Incumbency advantage and shocks in the electorate: The Adoption of Voluntary Voting
Although the advantage that incumbents may have over challengers has been extensively studied, less is known about how incumbency advantage is affected by the adoption of voluntary voting. In this paper, I study incumbency advantage in Chile, a country that adopted voluntary voting in 2012. I find that incumbency advantage substantively decreases with voluntary voting. The primary mechanism explaining such reduction was the entry of high-quality …
Do Voters Affect Policies? Within-Coalition Competition in the Chilean Electoral System
It has been argued that close elections lead to policy convergence, as legislators elected by a small margin are more likely to adopt moderate policy positions (Downs 1957). However, Lee, Moretti, and Butler (2004) find that electoral competition does not affect legislators’ policy preferences in the United States, questioning the median voter paradigm. To help to discern this paradox, we estimate the effect of close elections on legislators’ sub…
The formation of attitudes toward immigration in Colombia
What explains elevated hostility toward immigrants? We identify two concerns that affect support for immigration: labor market competition and social proximity between immigrants and natives. Relying on a conjoint experiment embedded in an original face-to-face survey, we explore these dynamics in one of the largest migratory flows of the last decade: the Venezuelan exodus to Colombia. We find that respondents primarily reject lower-skill migrant…
Incumbency advantage and shocks in the electorate: The Adoption of Voluntary Voting
Although the advantage that incumbents may have over challengers has been extensively studied, less is known about how incumbency advantage is affected by the adoption of voluntary voting. In this paper, I study incumbency advantage in Chile, a country that adopted voluntary voting in 2012. I find that incumbency advantage substantively decreases with voluntary voting. The primary mechanism explaining such reduction was the entry of high-quality …
Do Voters Affect Policies? Within-Coalition Competition in the Chilean Electoral System
It has been argued that close elections lead to policy convergence, as legislators elected by a small margin are more likely to adopt moderate policy positions (Downs 1957). However, Lee, Moretti, and Butler (2004) find that electoral competition does not affect legislators’ policy preferences in the United States, questioning the median voter paradigm. To help to discern this paradox, we estimate the effect of close elections on legislators’ sub…
Do Voters Affect Policies? Within-Coalition Competition in the Chilean Electoral System
It has been argued that close elections lead to policy convergence, as legislators elected by a small margin are more likely to adopt moderate policy positions (Downs 1957). However, Lee, Moretti, and Butler (2004) find that electoral competition does not affect legislators’ policy preferences in the United States, questioning the median voter paradigm. To help to discern this paradox, we estimate the effect of close elections on legislators’ sub…
Incumbency advantage and shocks in the electorate: The Adoption of Voluntary Voting
Although the advantage that incumbents may have over challengers has been extensively studied, less is known about how incumbency advantage is affected by the adoption of voluntary voting. In this paper, I study incumbency advantage in Chile, a country that adopted voluntary voting in 2012. I find that incumbency advantage substantively decreases with voluntary voting. The primary mechanism explaining such reduction was the entry of high-quality …
Does Voluntary Voting Enhance Partisan Bias? Evidence from Chile
Although partisan bias - when an authority transfers discretionary public resources to a politically aligned receiver − has been extensively studied, less is known about how this practice is affected by the voting regime − compulsory or voluntary voting. In this article, I study partisan bias in Chile, using administrative data of transfers from the central authority to local governments, highlighting two relevant scope conditions: the electoral …
Politics Matter: How Political Experience Mitigates Learning Losses Caused by Natural Disasters
Growing evidence warns about the detrimental effects of the stress induced by natural disasters on learning outcomes. Yet less is known about how political leadership could mitigate the adverse exposure to these events. Exploiting a natural experiment—the massive 2010 earthquake in Chile—as an exogenous shock and using fine-grained student data, we find that school disruption has a short and long-term impact on students’ test scores. Moreover, ou…
The formation of attitudes toward immigration in Colombia
What explains elevated hostility toward immigrants? We identify two concerns that affect support for immigration: labor market competition and social proximity between immigrants and natives. Relying on a conjoint experiment embedded in an original face-to-face survey, we explore these dynamics in one of the largest migratory flows of the last decade: the Venezuelan exodus to Colombia. We find that respondents primarily reject lower-skill migrant…
Explaining the Impact of South-South Migration: Evidence from Chile's Immigration Boom
Chile 2024: La Resiliencia de la Ideología y el Auge de las Actitudes Anti-Élite
Shade-grown authoritarianism? Revisiting coffee as a curse in Latin America and the Caribbean
The Anti-Left Legacy of the Pinochet Dictatorship
Educational systems can serve as powerful tools for attempted authoritarian indoctrination. What is the legacy of education under authoritarianism, and does it persist after the regime ends? We exploit a discrete change in the school curriculum generated by the Chilean 1973 coup. After the coup, the military junta overhauled the curriculum to align with its ideology. We use a regression discontinuity to compare people who were barely exposed to t…
Political science (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Demographic economics (2 works)