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.

Publications

(2025). The Effect of Deactivating Facebook and Instagram on Users’ Emotional State. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.

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

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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
Reputation and development

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JSLabTemplate

A starter template for research workflows and collaborative lab projects.

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Echoes of the Crash: A Structural and Semantic Analysis of the Great Depression in American Newspapers

Project for the Data Science course in the UPF PhD program.

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Complexity, Representation, and Riskless Mirrors: Evidence from a Cue Based Pilot

Experimental pilot survey project for the Behavioral Decision Making course at UPF.

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