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
Measuring Science: Performance Metrics and the Allocation of Talent
American Economic Review, 2024, vol.114, no. 12, pp.4052-4090
How Polarised are Citizens? Measuring Ideology from the Ground up
The Economic Journal, 2024, vol.134, no. 661, pp.1950–1984
From apprentice to president? Entertainment TV and US elections
The Leadership Quarterly, 2024, vol.35, no. 3, pp.101758
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
Beyond the Stats: Realities, Perception, and Social Media Discourse on Poverty
American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 2024, vol.114, pp.690-694
Estimating text regressions using txtreg_train
The Stata Journal: Promoting communications on statistics and Stata, 2023, vol.23, no. 3, pp.799-812
Grants & Honors
Bocconi Teaching Award for the academic year 2023-2024 - “Innovation in Teaching” - Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
, 2025
Bocconi Junior Research Grant
, 2021
CAGE Research Award
, 2019