Juan S. Morales
Associate Professor
Department of Economics
Lazaridis School of Business and Economics
Wilfrid Laurier University
Research Interests:
Political Economy, Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Media, Violence and Conflict
Teaching:
Winter 2025, Economics Paper and Seminar (EC481)
Winter 2025, Advanced Econometrics (EC495)
E-mail: jmorales@wlu.ca
CV: [pdf]
2021
Working Papers
○ Conformity and Silence: Experimental Evidence on Social Pressure and Free Speech
(with Margaret Samahita) [pdf]
○ Violence Against Journalists and Freedom of the Press: Evidence from Mexico (with José A. Jurado) [pdf]
Revise and resubmit, Journal of Development Economics
○ Does Electoral Violence Backfire in Mature Democracies? Evidence from the Capitol Insurrection in the U.S.
(with Krysztof Krakowski) [pdf]
Conditionally accepted, Journal of Peace Research
Publications
Economics
○ Legal Reforms, Conditional Cash Transfer Programs, and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from Mexico
(with Gustavo J. Bobonis and Roberto Castro) [pdf]
Economía LACEA Journal, 2025, 24(1): 124–145 [link, open access]
○ Sharing News Left and Right: Frictions and Misinformation on Twitter (with Daniel Ershov) [pdf] [VoxEU]
The Economic Journal, 2024, 134(662): 2391–2417 [link]
○ Jam-barrel Politics (with Leonardo Bonilla-Mejía) [pdf] [VoxDev] [Políticas Públicas]
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106(1): 167–183 [link]
○ Legislating During War: Conflict and Politics in Colombia [pdf]
Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 193: 104325 [link]
○ The Impact of Internal Displacement on Destination Communities: Evidence from the Colombian Conflict [pdf]
Journal of Development Economics, 2018, 131: 132-150 [link]
Interdisciplinary
○ Can ♥s Change Minds? Social Media Endorsements and Policy Preferences (with Pierluigi Conzo ⓡ Laura K. Taylor ⓡ Margaret Samahita ⓡ Andrea Gallice) [pdf] [BibTex citation] [The Conversation] [NPR]
Social Media + Society, 2023, 9(2) [link, open access]
○ Violence Against Politicians, Negative Campaigning, and Public Opinion: Evidence from Poland
(with Krzysztof Krakowski and Dani Sandu) [pdf]
Comparative Political Studies, 2022, 55(12): 2086-2118 [link]
○ Perceived Popularity and Online Political Dissent: Evidence from Twitter in Venezuela [pdf]
International Journal of Press/Politics, 2020, 25(1): 5-27 [link]
Work in Progress
○ Moral Characters: Social Media and Elections in the U.S. (with Edoardo Grillo and Alessandra Moresi)
○ Political Interaction and Influence through Social Media (with Pierluigi Conzo, Andrea Gallice and Margaret Samahita)
○ Understanding the Determinants of Civil Protests: Evidence from Twelve Million Mobile Surveys (with Rishav R. Agarwal, Joel Blit, Horatiu Rus, and Anindya Sen)
○ State Control of Online Political Dissent: Evidence from Turkey (with Arvind Magesan and Arieda Muço)
Contact
E-mail: jmorales@wlu.ca
Social Media: [Bluesky] [LinkedIn]
Office: LH3092
Phone: +1 548-889-4623
Address:
Department of Economics
Lazaridis School of Business and Economics
Wilfrid Laurier University
75 University Avenue West
Waterloo, ON, N2L 3C5