Juan Carlos Cisneros

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. The central objective of my research agenda is to investigate the structural mechanisms by which institutional designs and informational environments influence human decision making and long run social outcomes.

Interests
  • Information Economics
  • Political Economy
  • Decision Theory/Behavioral Economics
  • Network Analysis
Education
  • MASc in Data, Economics, Development Policy , 2021

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • BSc in Economics, 2019

    Universidad San Francisco de Quito

Publications

(2025). The Effects of Political Advertising on Facebook and Instagram before the 2020 US Election. Nature Human Behavior.

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(2025). The Effects of Political Advertising on Facebook and Instagram before the 2020 US Election. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.

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(2024). The Effects of Facebook and Instagram on the 2020 Election: A Deactivation Experiment. PNAS.

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Working papers

(2026). The Voter Trap. Working paper.

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Briefs/Blog

Two lessons from the landmark IPCC report on climate change
Two lessons from the landmark IPCC report on climate change
Reputation and development
Reputation and development