Dr. Jerome Schäfer, PhD

I came to LMU in 2018 after receiving my PhD from Yale. In my academic research, I focus on political economy, political behavior, public policy, and quantitative research methods.

Publications

• Hirvonen, Salomo, Jerome Schafer, and Janne Tukiainen (2023). Policy Feedback and Voter Turnout: Evidence from the Finnish Basic Income Experiment. Conditionally Accepted. American Journal of Political Science.
• Bellettini, Giorgio, Carlotta Berti-Ceroni, Enrico Cantoni, Chiara Monfardi, and Jerome Schafer (2023). Modern Family? The Gendered Effects of Marriage and Childbearing on Voter Turnout. British Journal of Political Science.
• Schafer, Jerome, Enrico Cantoni, Giorgio Bellettini, and Carlotta Berti Ceroni (2022). Making Unequal Democracy Work? The Effects of Income on Voter Turnout in Northern Italy. American Journal of Political Science 66, no. 3: 745-761.
• Cantoni, Enrico, Ludovica Gazzè, and Jerome Schafer (2021). Turnout in Concurrent Elections: Evidence from Two Quasi-Experiments in Italy. European Journal of Political Economy 70: 102035.
• Schafer, Jerome (2021). Delayed Gratification in Political Participation. American Politics Research 49, no. 3: 304-312.
• Schafer, Jerome and John Holbein (2020). Time Is of the Essence: a Natural Experiment on How Time Constraints Influence Elections. Journal of Politics, 2, 418-432.
• Holbein, John, Jerome Schafer, and David Dickinson (2019). Insufficient Sleep Reduces Voting and Other Pro-Social Behaviors. Nature Human Behaviour, 3, 492-500.
• Schafer, Jerome (2014). European Commission Officials’ Policy Attitudes. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 52(4), 911-927.

Classes taught at LMU

• Research Design (B.A.)
• Quantitative Comparative Politics (B.A.)
• Elections and Survey Research (B.A.)
• American Politics (B.A.)
• Advanced Quantitative Methods: Causal Inference (M.A.)
• Comparative Political Economy (M.A.)

CV Schaefer (PDF)