Eric A. Baldwin is an emerging voice and scholar in law and economics, public policy, and empirical legal studies with a focus on gun policy, campaign finance, and the criminal justice system. A Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford, he is mentored by Professor John J. Donohue III. His research applies econometrics, causal inference, and data science to study how institutions, firms, and industries respond to changing rules and crises, manage their reputations, and use money to change incentives.

Baldwin’s current projects examine how organized interests and political action committees shape gun policy in the United States, how corporations drive policy change, and how policymakers choose which constituencies to respond to. His research also includes projects on reforming indigent defense, using statistical evidence in bringing cases under the California Racial Justice Act, and studying the economic determinants of crime. He works regularly with economists and data scientists, using quantitative methods on both scholarly questions and applied problems of measurement and behavior. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from UCLA.

His research has appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Political Research Quarterly, and Political Psychology.

His NBER working papers can be found here.

His research has been profiled in The Atlantic.

His short-form writing has appeared in USA Today, Newsweek, Time Magazine, and Project Syndicate.