Carlo Schwarz
Economics, Politics and Decision Sciences
Biography
Carlo Scwarz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Università Bocconi since 2020.
His research interest lies in the field of applied microeconomics with a particular interest in policy-relevant questions. In his research, he combines causal inference strategies with techniques from text analysis, machine learning, and data science. His recent research investigates the contribution of social media to the spread of hate crimes and anti-minority sentiments online and offline as well as polarization and election outcomes. He recently started working on the analysis of images using machine learning. He is the author of numerous articles on his topics of interest. His works have been published in the American Economic Journal, The Economic Journal, and Journal of the European Economic Association, among others.
He has a PhD and a MRes in Economics from the University of Warwick.
Latest publications
Beyond the Stats: Realities, Perception, and Social Media Discourse on Poverty
American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 2024, vol.114, pp.690-694
How Polarised are Citizens? Measuring Ideology from the Ground up
The Economic Journal, 2024
From Hashtag to Hate Crime: Twitter and Antiminority Sentiment
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2023, vol.15, no. 3, pp.270-312
Fanning the Flames of Hate: Social Media and Hate Crime
Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, vol.19, no. 4, pp.2131-2167
Tariffs and Politics: Evidence from Trump’s Trade Wars
The Economic Journal, 2021, vol.131, no. 636, pp.1717-1741
lsemantica: A command for text similarity based on latent semantic analysis
The Stata Journal: Promoting communications on statistics and Stata, 2019, vol.19, no. 1, pp.129-142
Grants & Honors
Bocconi Junior Research Grant
, 2021
CAGE Research Award
, 2019