Juan S. Morales is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier Unversity in Waterloo, Canada. He is an applied microeconomist working in the fields of political economy and development economics, with particular research interests in conflict, media, political communication, and legislative behaviour. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Toronto and a BCS (Computer Science) from the University of Waterloo. Prior to joining WLU, he was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin, Italy.