Carlos Schmidt-Padilla

Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley

Carlos Schmidt-Padilla is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Broadly, his research interests encompass the political economy of development of Latin America and of sub-Saharan Africa. In particular, he studies questions concerning crime, human capital, immigration, and policing under weak institutional settings. 

Recent work by Carlos Schmidt-Padilla