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Evidence Generation
IPA has 20 country offices, listed here, as well as projects in 30+ more countries across the globe.
Evidence Generation
IPA has 20 country offices, listed here, as well as projects in 30+ more countries across the globe.
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Pennsylvania
Carlos Schmidt-Padilla is a former Postdoctoral Fellow with the Penn Development Research Initiative (PDRI). He is now an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy of 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, migration, and policing under weak institutional settings.