Carlo Schwarz
Assistant Professor
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.
Recent Publications
- 2025
Climbing the ivory tower: Socioeconomic representation in academia
ABRAMITZKY, R., L. GRESKA, S. PÉREZ, J. PRICE, C. , R. SCHWARZ, F. WALDINGER, "Climbing the ivory tower: Socioeconomic representation in academia", VoxEU - CEPR, 11 February 2025 - 2024
How Polarised are Citizens? Measuring Ideology from the Ground up
DRACA, M., C. , R. SCHWARZ, "How Polarised are Citizens? Measuring Ideology from the Ground up", The Economic Journal, 2024, vol. 134, no. 661, pp. 1950–1984 - 2024
Beyond the Stats: Realities, Perception, and Social Media Discourse on Poverty
BOSE, P., L. LUPO, M. HABIBI, D. HOVY, C. , R. SCHWARZ, "Beyond the Stats: Realities, Perception, and Social Media Discourse on Poverty", American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 2024, vol. 114, pp. 690-694 - 2024
The Effect of Social Media on Elections: Evidence from The United States
FUJIWARA, T., K. MÜLLER, C. , R. SCHWARZ, "The Effect of Social Media on Elections: Evidence from The United States", Journal of the European Economic Association, 2024, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 1495-1539 - 2024
From apprentice to president? Entertainment TV and US elections
MÜLLER, K., C. , R. SCHWARZ, "From apprentice to president? Entertainment TV and US elections", The Leadership Quarterly, 2024, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 101758 - 2024
Measuring Science: Performance Metrics and the Allocation of Talent
HAGER, S., C. , R. SCHWARZ, F. WALDINGER, "Measuring Science: Performance Metrics and the Allocation of Talent", American Economic Review, 2024, vol. 114, no. 12, pp. 4052-4090 - 2023
The glass ceiling in the ivory tower: A century of gender gaps in academia across the globe
IARIA, A., C. , R. SCHWARZ, F. WALDINGER, "The glass ceiling in the ivory tower: A century of gender gaps in academia across the globe", voxEU.org, 27 May 2023 - 2023
From Hashtag to Hate Crime: Twitter and Antiminority Sentiment
MÜLLER, K., C. , R. SCHWARZ, "From Hashtag to Hate Crime: Twitter and Antiminority Sentiment", American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2023, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 270-312 - 2023
Estimating text regressions using txtreg_train
SCHWARZ, C., R., "Estimating text regressions using txtreg_train", The Stata Journal: Promoting communications on statistics and Stata, 2023, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 799-812 - 2022
The effect of content moderation on online and offline hate
MÜLLER, K., C. , R. SCHWARZ, R. JIMÉNEZ-DURÁN, "The effect of content moderation on online and offline hate", voxEU.org, 23 November 2022
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Grants & Honors
Bocconi Teaching Award per l'anno accademico 2023-2024 - “Innovation in Teaching”, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2025
Bocconi Junior Research Grant, 2021
CAGE Research Award, 2019
