Paul Bose

I am a postdoctoral reseracher at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata. My research interests are in Applied Microeconometrics, focusing on Political Economy, Media Economics, the Economics of Migration and Sports Economics. My research combines text data with machine learning and natural experiments.

In my job market paper I study the role of personalization on a large social network using a platform-wide change for new users that first introduced a personalized home feed for new users. I show that affected users interact more with similar users, especially users of the same political orientation, view and post different content, but do not change their overall political stance. The paper is one of the first to study the role of algorithms on social media for polarization in a non-experimental setting.