Juan Carlos Cisneros

PhD Student

I am a Ph.D. student at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. I was a predoctoral research fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) with Matthew Gentzkow. I hold a BSc in Economics from Universidad San Francisco de Quito and a MASc in Data, Economics, Development Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. My research focuses on information, media and networks.

Interests

Network Analysis
Information Economics
Development Economics
Political Economy
Econometrics

Education

MASc in Data, Economics, Development Policy , 2021
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BSc in Economics, 2019
Universidad San Francisco de Quito

Publications

Juan Carlos Cisneros (non-lead co-author), Matthew Gentzkow (lead co-author), Hunt Allcott (lead co-author) (2025). The Effects of Political Advertising on Facebook and Instagram before the 2020 US Election. Nature Human Behavior.

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Juan Carlos Cisneros (non-lead co-author), Matthew Gentzkow (lead co-author), Hunt Allcott (lead co-author) (2025). The Effects of Political Advertising on Facebook and Instagram before the 2020 US Election. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.

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Juan Carlos Cisneros (non-lead co-author), Matthew Gentzkow (lead co-author), Hunt Allcott (lead co-author) (2024). The Effects of Facebook and Instagram on the 2020 Election: A Deactivation Experiment. PNAS.

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