Job title:
Graduate Student
Department:
Political Science
Bio/CV:
Carlos Schmidt-Padilla is a doctoral candidate in Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley. 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.
Research interests:
- Comparative Politics
- Development
- Governance / Democracy
- Security / Defense
