Carlo Hofer, BSc (TU Munich), MSc (Venice), PhD (Warwick)

Profile

Carlo Hofer is a PDRA at QMUL and a final-year PhD candidate in the Department of Politics and International Studies of the University of Warwick. He has also been a research associate at QMUL, on the ESRC-funded project "The impact of political humour on political attitudes and behaviours", and a research associate at the University of Warwick, on the ESRC funded project "Terror - Attitudes - Wellbeing". He holds an MSc from the University of Venice as well as a BSc in Business and Computer Science from the Technical University of Munich (TUM).

Research

Research Interests:

• Climate change
• Contextual effects
• Political participation
• Affective polarisation
• Internet and social media

Publications

Working papers

Breaking the ice: The impact of humorous communication on climate change attitudes and political participation. (Survey experiment)

Good neighbours: Exposure to diversity in the neighbourhood improves attitudes towards immigration. (Bartik IV)

Downloading polarisation: Consuming political content online increases affective polarisation. (2SLS)

Ecological and economic cost of terror: The impact of terrorist attacks on commuting patterns. (Natural experiment)

Planned

When does the pie stop growing? Decreasing marginl returns of broadband performance on internet consumption.

Which terrorist attacks attract more media attention and why? (ML Random forest)

Housing prices and economic voting: How the cost of living crisis splits constituencies based on home ownership.

Contextual effects of climate change on affective polarisation.

The sociotropic spillover of the Chinese import shock.