ALBA HUIDOBRO

Stanford University

ABOUT ME

I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Inclusive Democracy and Development (ID2) Lab at Stanford Impact Labs (SIL). I obtained my Ph.D. from Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona) in July 2022. During my Ph.D., I have been a visiting researcher at the European University Institute, at Nuffield College, the University of Oxford, and the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

I am interested in the political behavior of citizens and elites, focusing on their selection into politics and governments. My dissertation explains the extent to which government formation processes are defined by political leaders' attitudes and personal characteristics, focusing on gender.

RESEARCH

PUBLICATIONS

Beltrán, Javier, Aina Gallego, Alba Huidobro, Enrique Romero and Lluís Padró (2021). Male and Female Politicians on Twitter: A Machine Learning Approach. European Journal of Political Research.

Huidobro, Alba, Yeimy Ospina, Marta Curto-Grau, and Aina Gallego (2019). La formación de Gobiernos municipales: una nueva base de datos. Revista Española de Ciencia Política, 49, 109-128.

WORK IN PROGRESS

Women who win but do not rule. Quasi-experimental evidence on the effect of gender on government formation. Revise & Resubmit.

With Albert Falcó-Gimeno

Partners in Government: Politicians’ Preferences about Coalition Formation. Under review.

How party leaders appoint women in their teams?

Gender and Political Ambition: Evidence from a survey of politicians

Young politicians in government formation processes

With Albert Falcó-Gimeno

CURRICULUM VITAE

You can download my CV here!

DATABASES

The formation of local governments: a new database.

Dataset

*How to cite the data:

Huidobro, A., Ospina, Y., Curto-Grau, M. y Gallego, A. (2019). La formación de Gobiernos municipales: una nueva base de datos. Revista Española de Ciencia Política, 49, 109-128.