Paul Bose

I am a research fellow in Economics at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata. My research interests are mainly in Applied Microeconometrics, with a focus on Political Economy, the Economics of Migration and Sports Economics.

My work combines the use of text data from social networks and other forms of “big data” with methods in machine learning, natural language processing and natural experiments in three themes. (1) How do public opinion and electoral institutions influence the selection of policies and politicians. I show for example that politicians are less likely to work on providing public goods, when voters distrust them more. (2) How can we use data from social media to understand public opinion? In one project, I use data from social media to understand how natives respond to close contact to refugees. In another one, I study how social media data can be used to understand perceptions of poverty. (3) What is the role of public opinion for decision making under uncertainty. I investigate how high profile decision makers in sports respond to public pressure.