Carlos Schmidt-Padilla is an Assistant Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley.
As a 2021-2022 Stanford Impact Labs Postdoctoral Fellow, Carlos worked with Stanford's Poverty, Violence and Governance Lab examining crime, migration and policing in Latin America. His research aimed to understand how crime and law enforcement practices shape development, influence human capital accumulation, and drive migration—and to identify strategies for improving public security.