Benjamin Wittenbrink

Cataloging Growth: A Re-Evaluation of 1900–1990

with Verónica Bäcker-Peral.

SSRN.

Last Updated: July 2026.

The Effect of Deactivating Facebook and Instagram on Users’ Emotional State

as lead author with Hunt Allcott, Matthew Gentzkow, et al.

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. Forthcoming.

NBER Working Paper #33697.

Supplemental Materials

The Effects of Political Advertising on Facebook and Instagram before the 2020 US Election

with Hunt Allcott, Matthew Gentzkow, Ro'ee Levy, et al.

Nature Human Behavior. 2026.

NBER Working Paper #33818.

The Effects of Facebook and Instagram on the 2020 Election: A Deactivation Experiment

with Hunt Allcott, Matthew Gentzkow, et al.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121 (21). 2024.

Analyzing Candidate's Ideological Messaging Throughout the Electoral System

under the direction of Matthew Gentzkow.

Received the 2022 Anna Laura Myers Prize for Outstanding Honors Thesis in Economics.

Stanford Department of Economics Honors Theses. 2022.

Single-Trial Visually Evoked Potentials Predict Both Individual Choice and Market Outcomes

with John Veillette, Shannon Heald, Katherine Reis, and Howard Nusbaum.

Scientific Reports. 13 (1). 2023.

The Minimum Wage and Social Security Disability Insurance

with Mark Duggan and Gopi Shah Goda.

Working Paper, 2021 (inactive).