I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and a faculty fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, and a Visiting Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. I am board member of the Argentine Panel Election Study and a research associate of the Center for the Politics of Development at UC Berkeley.

At the intersection of political behavior and political economy, my research examines how institutions and the economic context shape citizens engagement with democracy in the developing world. I study these questions employing tools of causal inference, such as natural and survey experiments. The regional focus of my work is Latin America, where I have conducted  extensive fieldwork and implemented numerous surveys. 

My book, Incumbency Bias: Why Political Office is a Blessing and a Curse in Latin America, is under production with Cambridge University Press as part of the Studies in Comparative Politics Series. My research has also been published at The Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Perspectives on Politics and University of Michigan Press.

I earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University and a B.A. in Political Science from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.

You can access my CV here and contact me at luis.schiumerini@nd.edu